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“I FIRST came to your country in ’64,” notes Charles Lloyd, the veteran saxophonist who returns to play the London Jazz Festival in November. “There was a group called The Beatles, and they came to America, and the unions had a reciprocity thing. So I played the Royal Albert Hall with Cannonball Adderley.” This exchange trip at the height of Beatlemania typifies the saxophonist’s career. He knew Elvis when he was a truck driver, was at Big Pink for The Basement Tapes, and it’s his sax and flute you can hear on The Beach Boys’ “Feel Flows”. But far from being some lucky Zelig figure, rock royalty sought Lloyd out. Robbie Robertson remembers watching him “in awe” in 1964, with his long hair, sharp threads and “Southern, modern, fresh” sound.