Frank Lowe's life took a decisive turn at the end of the 50s, when he discovered the emergence of free jazz. The path that had just been blazed by John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, among others, encouraged him to pursue his musical education in an environment where freedom and spontaneity of artistic expression were paramount. He thus joined the most committed artists of the American free jazz avant-garde, strongly attached to the original blues and to the spiritual dimension of music. At the end of the 60s, he collaborated with Sun Ra, then with Alice Coltrane and many other musicians who were direct heirs to the AACM and the Great Black Music movement. The strength of character, the wounds of the soul and the generosity of the man - all these components of Frank Lowe have since been expressed in a permanent confrontation with the instrument, whose purity of discourse and intensity of improvisation constantly provoke emotion. After several years of encounters in a variety of contexts ranging from full solo to full orchestra, it is also in duos, such as with French double bassist Bernard Santacruz, that Frank Lowe reaches the heights of his expressiveness, definitively linked to the spirit of the blues and necessarily free.
