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Charles Lloyd: Why Lloyd Wants To Play With The Stones

Jacoba Atlas, Melody Maker, 23 January 1971

CHARLES LLOYD doesn't want to be known as the first jazzman to play the rock halls, Fillmore and Avalon. He says that categorization is demeaning, like saying you're the first black man to get into an all-white company.

Total word count of piece: 890

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