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After graduation, Lowe and his wife moved to New Haven, where he returned to his saxophone and became active in the local jazz scene with bassist Jeff Fuller and drummer Ray
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Lowe dropped out of the Yale School of Drama after one year of studying to be a playwright. He met and married his wife, and they moved to
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602:- published by Cadence Jazz Books, 1997. 9-CD set issued concurrently by West Hill Radio Archive (Canada) and West Hill Radio Archive (Germany). Lowe curated, restored, mastered, and wrote liner notes for the tracks.
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is a composer, musician, music historian, and sound restoration specialist. He plays alto saxophone, C-melody saxophone, and guitar and has recorded with
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In 1996 Lowe moved to South
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I Alone: The Everlasting Beauty of Monotony (Matthew Shipp Plays the Music of Allen Lowe)
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Where a Cigarette is Smoked by Ten Men (In the Diaspora of the Diaspora)
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