Sangam

This music has scale and grandeur in the echoing sound of Hussain’s Indian percussion and the way it combines with Harland’s drums to fill the space or the way Lloyd’s various woodwinds emerge from Hussain and Harland’s rumbling thunder. (...) With that mighty tenor riding the percussionist’s storm on “Tales Of Rumi” and the title track, this is world jazz of the highest order owing as much to Harland and Hussain, as to the leader himself. … An album of depth, challenge and variety. - Duncan Heining, Jazzwise

Sangam is the name of his new record and his new working band, with only the Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain and the drummer Eric Harland. You might expect it to be a well-meaning attempt to cross bridges, something that ends up being rhythmically dissolute, a matter of tones and techniques that cancel each other out. It’s not; it’s a powerfully coherent record. - Ben Ratliff, The New York Times