Lloyd, 75, still sounds as fresh as ever

Young people, according to Aristotle, “are in a state of permanent intoxication because youth is sweet and they are growing”.

Somebody else said “old age is just a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form”. American saxophonist Charles Lloyd is a busy man.

Earlier this year he was in Tokyo with his quartet; last month he was in Germany; and last week he started a tour of the US in Minneapolis before going on to New York, where on Mar 15 he celebrated his 75th birthday playing with his New Quartet — Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland — at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He heads to Europe in April, and that tour will be followed by another series of concerts back in the USA.