Allen Lowe is a Connecticut-based saxophonist, composer, scholar, sound engineer, and programmer. His entire career stands as a challenge to inherited ideas about American music history, culture, and its many intersections across genres and styles. This is reflected in the diversity of his recordings from the beginning, including New Tango 92: After Astor Piazzolla (Or, The Second Assassin) and Woyzeck's Death in 1995 with Roswell Rudd -- a jazz adaptation of the Georg Buchner play Woyzeck. He has composed and recorded blues, funk, gospel, and avant-classical music, all colore...