Notes from Big Sur

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Notes from Big Sur | type = Album | artist = [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] | cover = Notes from Big Sur.jpg | alt = | released = 1992 | recorded = November 1991 | studio = Rainbow Studio<br>[[Oslo, Norway]] | venue = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = 60:38 | label = [[ECM Records|ECM]]<br>ECM 1465 | producer = [[Manfred Eicher]] | chronology = [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] | prev_title = [[Fish Out of Water (Charles Lloyd album)|Fish Out of Water]] | prev_year = 1991 | next_title = [[Acoustic Masters I]] | next_year = 1993 }} '''''Notes from Big Sur''''' is an album by American [[jazz]] saxophonist [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]], recorded in November 1991 and released on [[ECM Records|ECM]] April the following year. The quartet feature rhythm section [[Bobo Stenson]], [[Anders Jormin]] and [[Ralph Peterson, Jr.|Ralph Peterson]].

==Reception== The [[AllMusic]] review by David R. Adler stated: "''Notes from Big Sur'' successfully portrays the California coastline for which it is named—picturesque and soothing, although rugged and at times forbidding."<ref name="Allmusic">Adler, D. R. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r142881|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review] accessed January 28, 2010.</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev3 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=901}}</ref> | rev2 = [[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]] | rev2Score = B+ ({{Rating-Christgau|hm1}})<ref name="Hull">{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=28 February 2018|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2608-Streamnotes-February-2018.html|title=Streamnotes|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|accessdate=9 July 2020}}</ref> }}

==Track listing== :''All compositions by Charles Lloyd''

# "Requiem" - 8:00 # "Sister" - 8:51 # "Pilgrimage to the Mountain Part 1: Persevere" - 7:22 # "Sam Song" - 7:54 # "Takur" - 4:27 # "Monk in Paris" - 9:38 # "When Miss Jessye Sings" - 9:55 # "Pilgrimage to the Mountain Part 2: Surrender" - 4:31

==Personnel== *[[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] – tenor saxophone *[[Bobo Stenson]] – piano *[[Anders Jormin]] – bass *[[Ralph Peterson, Jr.|Ralph Peterson]] – drums

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[[Category:1992 albums]] [[Category:ECM Records albums]] [[Category:Charles Lloyd (jazz musician) albums]] [[Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher]]