Near the end of Charles Lloyd’s “Figure in Blue” (Blue Note) comes “Hymn to the Mother, for Zakir.” Its brief, exquisite melody glides in like a slow tide, and eventually releases into eddies of ...

One can find in Charles Lloyd the intersection of music and spirituality, and Friday night at the Lobero Theater, he issued a heartfelt update from the frontier. Like the century-old Lobero, National ...