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William
Lowe
Bill Lowe is a performer, composer and educator whose recordings
include work with Muhal Richard Abrams (Heringa Suite); Henry Threadgill
(Rag, Bush and All); Frank Foster (Shiny Stockings and Manhattan
Fever); Trudy Silver (heroes/heroines); CMIF Orchestra (The Sky
Cries the Blues); Andy Jaffe Sextet (Manhattan Projections); The
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra (Psalms and Elegies) as well as the
debut album of JUBA (Look On The Rainbow) and the debut albums of
James Jabbo Ware and the Me, We and Them Orchestra, (TODAY'S MOVE
and HERITAGE IS). As co-leader of the Bill Lowe/Philippe Crettien
Quintet, Lowe is co-producer and principal composer of that aggregation's
debut album, (Sunday Train). The 1991 French tour of the quintet
included an engagement at the Sunset Club in Paris. Since 1991,
the quintet has served as featured performers and workshop faculty
for the City of Toulon Jazz Festival, where Prof. Lowe is the Director
of Pedagogy and Instruction. In November of 1994, Prof. Lowe performed
in the Jazz Festival in Kyoto, Japan, as a member of the Boston
Blazing Jazz Orchestra.
Prof.
Lowe is co-producer and featured performer with the John
Coltrane Memorial Concert. in Boston. As a member of Joyful
Noise, the core performance and teaching group of the JCMC, Prof.
Lowe continues to lecture and perform in a variety of elementary,
middle and High Schools in the greater Boston area, as well as appearing
on the debut CD, 12th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert and
co-producing the second JCMC recording, COLTRANE'S ASHE! In 1995,
Lowe and other members of Joyful Noise were members of the United
States Delegation to the Inaugural Conference, Culture and Social
Transformation: Creative Improvisation, held in Holguin, Cuba, January
3-10, 1995. The 12 member US delegation included a group of professors/musicians.
As a scholar of African American Studies and as trombonist, tubaist
and composer, Prof. Lowe shared music making practices and performance
pedagogy in a series of lectures, concerts and research sessions
with the assembled group of Cuban intellectuals, writers, educators
and musicians. In addition, he extended his on going cultural studies
work with the literary/musical environments of Nuestras Americas
by presenting a paper at the conference exploring the cross referencing
of African American musical styles and images in the expressive
constructs of Alejo Carpentier, Nicols Guillon, Langston Hughes
and Samuel Delany, entitled: towards a musical reading of Alejo
Carpenter's Concierto Barroco and Samuel Delany's The Deferred Dream
books of Tomorrow's Daily Daily Considered as BeBop Slave Narratives.
Lowe is co-founder/co-director of the Atkins/Lowe Boston Jazz Repertory
Orchestra.
Prof.
Lowe was the recipient of a major commissioning grant from Meet
The Composer and the World Music Institute in 1996 in support of
another cycle of his SIGNIFYIN' NATIVES composition project entitled
Living Lives, Telling Times: A Trane Trip for the annual JCMC concert.
Lowe's
others credits include touring and performances with Sam Rivers;
Dizzy Gillespie; Eartha Kitt; Clark Terry; Thad Jones/Mel Lewis;
Slide Hampton; Bill Barron; Collective Black Artists; Onzie Matthews;
George Russell; Bill Dixon; Jaki Byard; the John Coltrane Memorial
Ensemble; Archie Shepp; Grover Mitchell; Mercer Ellington; and various
Broadway and symphonic orchestras.
Lowe's
opera Reb's Last Funeral: Resolution of Invisible Whips, has received
commissioning support from the Connecticut Commission for the Arts
and Northeastern University.
An
Associate Professor of African
American Studies, Education,
and Music at Northeastern
University, Lowe has also taught at Wesleyan and Yale Universities
in Connecticut and the City University in New York. Prof. Lowe's
present research activities in American Studies at Yale University
include work with contemporary Science Fiction writing, African
American Intellectual History, New World Aesthetics and Popular
Culture Theory, as well as the Bill Barron Biography Project.
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William Lowe
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Phone:
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(617)
373-4130 |
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Office:
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Ryder
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(617)
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William Lowe
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