Joe McPhee Quartet - Legend Street One (1996)

Joe McPhee Quartet - Legend Street One

Tracklist:
1 Loweville 2:12
2 What We Do 7:12
3 Memorium 5:33
4 For Panama, Parts 1&2 7:42
5 Up, Over And Out 9:16
6 July The 13th 5:22
7 Not Yet 6:05
8 Trading Space 9:40

Tenor Saxophone - Frank Lowe
Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Trumpet [Pocket], Flugelhorn - Joe McPhee
Typography [Typesetting] - Hillary J. Ryan
Violin - David Prentice
Drums - Charles Moffett

Recorded at The Spirit Room, Rossie, NY, June 1 & 2, 1996.

Two avangarde tenor giants .... Joe McPhee and Frank Lowe collaborate!

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Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe - Duo Exchange(1973)

Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe - Duo Exchange

Label:Survival Records

Tracklist
1 Exchange - Part 1 (Side A)
2 Exchange - Side 2 (Side B)

Personnel:
Drums, Percussion - Rashied Ali
Saxophone [Tenor], Flute [Japanese], Percussion - Frank Lowe

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Frank Lowe - Fresh

Frank Lowe: tenor saxophone
Lester Bowie: trumpet
Joseph Bowie: trombone
Abdul Wadud: cello
Steve Reid: drums
Charles Bobo Shaw: drums
+ The Memphis Four

The emphasis is on color and sound on this spirited avant-garde album. Four of the five selections feature the adventurous tenor of Frank Lowe with trumpeter Lester Bowie, trombonist Joseph Bowie, cellist Abdul Wadud and either Steve Reid or Bob Shaw on drums. They perform two Lowe originals and two pieces by Thelonious Monk; these renditions are full of surprises and contrasts. In addition, Lowe is heard with an unknown group of local musicians called "the Memphis Four" on "Chu's Blues" in 1974. Open-eared listeners should find this set to be quite stimulating. (from AMG)

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Frank Lowe - Black Beings

Frank Lowe: tenor saxophone
Joseph Jarman: soprano & alto saxophones
The Wizard (Raymond Lee Chang OR Leroy Jenkins?): violin
William Parker: bass
Rashid Sinan: drums

The age of the LP was often one of compromise for jazz musicians. Given the restrictions on playing time, recordings had to be edited to fit. This meant a loss of ideas and of development with the truncated versions being shadows of the whole. The emergence of the CD has seen the revival of music with the whole performance included. Sometimes the edits were better, but many times the complete picture brings in a deeper dimension and impact. The latter sensibility grabs this recording which has fifteen minutes added to "In Trane's Name" and "Thulani."

Recorded in 1973, Frank Lowe (tenor saxophone) pulled in Joseph Jarman (soprano and alto saxophones) and William Parker (bass) to fly into the eye of free jazz. Lowe was into the music after John Coltrane's Ascension (Impulse!, 1965), and the influence and impact can be felt right through. Lowe went out on a musical limb here; the genre was not a long-term residence for him.

It all opens quietly enough with "In Trane's Name." Lowe plays with control, giving the melody its due, but when the tune erupts, the power and the force are incendiary. Both Lowe and Jarman propel and edge the music onwards, fermenting and brewing ideas on the go. There is howl and yell and intensely volatile notes shooting into the stratosphere. Jarman hits the high squiggles, squeezing out the notes, the torque tight. Lowe swipes a broader swath as he gets into a conversation with Jarman, if that's what the charged atmosphere can be called. Give the band credit though for not letting the tune spiral out of control, they bring it down, cooling the pace for the mid-section.

"Thulani" is another agitated progression, with Lowe and Jarman moving on different planes; the former is steady on the beat and the melody, the later unfurls a whorl of free motifs. But it is not long before Lowe dives into the pith and tears form apart.

Parker and Rashid Sinan (drums) are an energetic and propulsive rhythm section. As for The Wizard on violin, it is Raymond Lee Chang and not Leroy Jenkins, whose playing informs Chang through a few shimmering lines on his solo outing during "Thulani," a waft of freshness in the heat. But he, too, is caught in the turmoil most of the way.

Black Beings serves as an historical document and stopping-off point in the musical legacy of Lowe, showing a rare side of the musician.

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