The Water Is Wide (Charles Lloyd album)

The Water Is Wide
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 21, 2000
RecordedDecember 1999
StudioCello Studios
Los Angeles
GenreJazz
Length68:21
LabelECM
ECM 1734
ProducerManfred Eicher
Charles Lloyd chronology
Voice in the Night
(1999)
The Water Is Wide
(2000)
Hyperion with Higgins
(2001)

The Water Is Wide is an album by American jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd recorded in December 1999 and released on ECM August the following year. The quintet features rhythm section John Abercrombie, Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier and Billy Higgins, with a guest appearance from bassist Darek Oles. The session, which also produced Hyperion with Higgins (2001), was one of Higgins' last before his death in 2001.