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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZLOWE, Mundell(b James Mundell Lowe, 21 April 1922, Laurel MS; d 2 December 2017) Jazz guitarist. Worked with Ray McKinley, Ellis Larkins, Red Norvo late '40s, Sauter/Finnegan band, on NBC staff NYC for many years. He made nine albums '54-60, mostly on Riverside, doing his own composing/arranging: his quartet used Glenn Miller veterans Trigger Alpert and Al Klink, Ed Shaughnessy on drums (b 29 January 1929, Jersey City; d 24 May 2013; played with Benny Goodman, Charlie Ventura, Tommy Dorsey; he and Lowe played in the Tonight Show band for a decade). Eleven-piece New Music Of Alec Wilder '56 had Joe Wilder leading a brass section with two flugelhorns. There were also sets of Porgy And Bess, TV themes on Camden (an RCA budget label) with an all-star big band. Lowe retired to West Coast studios, emerging from TV work (I Dream Of Jeannie, Starsky & Hutch, Hawaii Five-O etc) for small-group albums California Guitar '74 on Famous Door, Guitar Player and Incomparable on Dobre, Transit West '83 on Pausa, Souvenirs on Jazz Alliance. He was also a teacher, and music director of the Monterey Jazz Festival. During his career he played with everybody from Benny Goodman to Billy Holiday and Charles Mingus; he was a member of André Previn's trio in the 1980s. At age 93 he released the album Poor Butterfly. |