Beneath The Blues Allen Lowe and the Avant Roots Trio

I am taking it slow this week but wanted to introduce you to my new Avant Roots Trio. We have done some recording and will continue with a broader session in April with the addition of Matt Shipp on piano and Darius Jones on alto sax; I play tenor, and on this particular recording, in this post, it is me on tenor, Ethan Kogan on drums, and Colson Jimenez on bass. You will find these people - and me - on few of the top ten lists that appear on Substack, because we are not beholden to publicists; but trust me, this group is one of the best in jazz, and the next project will be on the label I record for, the legendary ESP DISK.

I remain largely invisible to the critics who write here, but my last recording, 4 CDs called “Louis Armstrong’s America,” is already on about 5 top ten lists; Francis Davis called it “a revelation” and Lee Rice Epstein of the Free Jazz Collective wrote: “Allen Lowe’s massive, five-hour opus may turn out to be one of the most important recordings of the 2020s, if only more people well spend time with it. Lowe’s music is personal, deeply thoughtful, and addictively listenable.”

So feel free to share this with one of these other guys, who shall remain nameless as long as I remain invisible.

This particular recording, for our next CD, is called Beneath The Blues.

Everybody in jazz talks about roots and the elders, but few can walk the roots. walk. Personally I am dedicated to old black musical forms, from the blues to earlier.

Hope you enjoy this; tell your friends.