Jazz Haven

Greater New Haven's Community Resource for Jazz since 1996

Greater New Haven's community
resource for Jazz since 1996!

Allen Lowe & The All Stars

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Allen Lowe & The All Stars perform at Best Video Film & Cultural Center in Hamden on Wednesday, January 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.  $10.00 cover.  Free on-site and on street parking.

Allen Lowe is a composer, saxophonist, and music historian. He was voted Artist of the Year in the 2021 Jazz Times Readers’ Poll. He has recorded as a leader with: Julius Hemphill, Gary Bartz, Marc Ribot, David Murray, Nels Cline, Matt Shipp, Roswell Rudd, Don Byron, Doc Cheatham, and others.

“This fall, the jazz composer, saxophonist, and music historian Allen Lowe released what I consider to be his magnum opus, a four-cd set  containing 69 tracks exploring almost every musical element and style that could be subsumed under the expansive rubric of “jazz.” One can hear elements of blues, R&B, bop, funk, rock, punk, avant guard, and much more, all beautifully composed and magnificently played (by Lowe himself and his colleagues). I’ve been digesting this music slowly, gradually, and repeatedly, and it just sounds better with each listen.
It’s Allen’s unequaled grasp of the entire history of American music that emerges in such idiosyncratic and creatively beautiful ways throughout this collection. I can’t think of anyone else who could have pulled off such a remarkably ambitious undertaking. He is a genius, without question.” -Professor Jon Karp, SUNY Binghamton

Allen Lowe & The All-Stars

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On Wednesday, January 22nd  from 7 – 9 pm, it’s Allen Lowe & The All-Stars at Best Video Film & Cultural Center, 1842 Whitney Ave., Hamden, for the monthly jazz session with “a coterie of musical guests” including guitarist Gary Grippo, drummer Barry Ries, bassist Jeff Fuller, and saxophonist Mark Kaplan.  $10 cover.  Free parking on site and at street.

Allen Lowe & The All-Stars

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Allen Lowe & The All-Stars

Step right into Hamden’s very own monthly jazz club…

Please join Best Video Film & Cultural Center and host Allen Lowe for our Monthly Jazz Night with Allen Lowe & The All-Stars on Wednesday, September 18th at 7pm. There will be a coterie of musical guests assembled by our host each month in a relaxed setting with tables and chairs to truly sit back, relax, and enjoy the great vibe. Of course, the BVCoffee Bar will be open for beer, wine, and café drinks. Cover charge is $10.

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Allen Lowe is a composer, saxophonist, and music historian. He was voted Artist of the Year in the 2021 Jazz Times Readers’ Poll. He has recorded as a leader with: Julius Hemphill, Gary Bartz, Marc Ribot, David Murray, Nels Cline, Matt Shipp, Roswell Rudd, Don Byron, Doc Cheatham, and others.

“Allen Lowe is the tradition; he is one of the few musicians doing anything new today.” -Anthony Braxton

“ Allen Lowe is a genius!  His work is always full of wonder, the excitement of discovery, and humor…the best work has always been done at  the margins, by the so-called underground – Poe, Whitman, Monk, Harvey Pekar, Herbie Nichols, James Joyce, Sun Ra – but it’s still a surprise and a revelation whenever you find it.”    -John Szwed, Columbia University Jazz Studies

Musicians

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