Join WMPG and PCM for another free Jazz at the Movies screening featuring “Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity”

“Arrows Into Infinity gives a rare insight into the life of one of contemporary music’s giants. The film finds a satisfying balance between documentary and exquisite live performance. There were times when I felt like clapping, I was at a performance. Not to be missed.” Mike Figgis, September 2013

Catapulted into worldwide fame in his early 20s, Charles Lloyd was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 1960s and considered jazz-rock royalty. His music crossed traditional boundaries and explored new territories. By his early 30s he was burned out and vanished from public view. For over a decade he lived the life of a hermit in Big Sur, California. “Arrows Into Infinity” follows the rise, retreat and return of the charismatic Lloyd and his spiritual quest through sound.

Charles Lloyd was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 1960s. His music crossed traditional boundaries and explored new territories. Born in Memphis, he grew up steeped in the blues but with an ear for modernity. At the age of 26, he was a band leader with two successful records on Columbia Records. His group the ‘Charles Lloyd Quartet” was comprised of an undiscovered Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Cecil McBee. Lloyd shattered boundaries and charted new territories. Catapulted into worldwide fame in his 20s, by his early 30s, he was burned out and left a public life behind to go into seclusion in Big Sur, CA for over a decade.

“Arrows Into Infinity” is a journey in sound through the unusual life and career of this jazz legend. Through contemporary and archival film, along with commentary from the jazz, pop, art and literary worlds, we come to better understand this enigmatic man and his spiritual pursuit through music. Lloyd launched the careers of Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, and French pianist Michel Petrucciani. He is a mentor to young musicians, Jason Moran and Eric Harland giving them a platform of freedom upon which to discover themselves. Musicians Jack DeJohnette, Jim Keltner, John Densmore, Robbie Robertson, Don Was, Jason Moran, Ornette Coleman, Zakir Hussain, Geri Allen, writer Stanley Crouch, painter Arthur Monroe, producers Manfred Eicher and Michael Cuscuna and others reveals to us Lloyd, “the band leader”, Lloyd, “the rebel” and Lloyd, “the tender warrior.” But it is through Charles Lloyd’s own poignant words and music that a poetic thread is created weaving together the unique aspects of his life.

“Arrows Into Infinity” is a collaborative work between Lloyd’s wife, painter and filmmaker, Dorothy Darr; and editor / filmmaker, Jeffery Morse.

About the Producers

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JEFFERY MORSE

Jeffery Morse is an award-winning producer, editor and trainer specializing in post- production workflows and training for video and digital photography. He is the founder of deepfield, inc. a multimedia production company that designs, produces and implements a variety of media from websites to videos and interactive multimedia. Notable clients include The North Face, BMW, The National Park Service, Seymour Duncan and the Hollywood Film Institute.

One of the films Jeffery produced for The North Face, was awarded the John Muir Gold Award at the Yosemite International Film Festival in 2009 and a Seven Summits Award Winner at the 2010 Mountain Film Festival.

DOROTHY DARR

A painter and visual artist, Dorothy Darr has exhibited her work and is in private collections around the world. She has won numerous awards and had her work published in journals in the US, France, Japan and Germany. With her husband Charles Lloyd, she has co-produced and rec his last nine recordings, as well as design the packaging. She has made four documentaries relating to Lloyd’s life and work ; Memphis Is In Egypt (1996), Home (2004) Ben Ingram vs the State of Mississippi, (2009) and now, Charles Lloyd, Arrows Into Infinity (2013)