Hagar's Song, the newest release from longtime ECM luminary Charles Lloyd, is an interactive duo recording with Jason Moran, the star pianist who has been a key member of Lloyd's latter-day quartet. The centerpiece of the album is the title suite composed by Lloyd and dedicated to his great-great-grandmother, who was taken from her home in south Mississippi at age 10 and sold to another slave-owner in Tennessee. Animated by soul-deep memory and a rich American artistic heritage, Hagar's Song is music from the heart to the heart.