What the critics say about Mundell Lowe
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      Mr. Lowe is one of the best mainstream jazz guitarists, a musician 
      completely at ease with be-bop’s snakelike rhythms…Mr. Lowe’s solos 
      overflowed with harmony, and in the middle of his improvisations, he’d 
      stick in several choruses of chords, pushing and pulling the harmony until 
      the songs vanished.  He slid chords smoothly up and down the neck letting 
      them melt into one another.   
 
      Lowe is a cool player—his sound is round and velvety and he lazes behind 
      the beat, improvising a note at a time…Pizzarelli providing accompaniment, 
      with that distinctive seventh bass string, to Lowe’s Lester Young-like 
      excursions….  The operative words here: swing, class and taste, zippily 
      delivered by a pair of master craftsmen.   
 
      Mr. Lowe stays closer to the melody than most of today’s jazz 
      guitarists…the suaveness and polish of his ballads are still present on 
      the surface of a swinging attack that seems to flow on its own momentum. 
       
 
      Mundell Lowe retains his cool.  His lines are fluid and graceful, and he 
      produces a mellow sound from the electric guitar.   
 
      Mundell Lowe is a superb jazz player.  This guitarist’s honey-smooth 
      quintet closed the evening with a group of state-of-the-art mainstream 
      improvisations done with an almost casual ease.   
 
      One could say there is nothing spectacular about his performance, unless 
      of course one considers eloquent, understated jazz to be spectacular.   | 
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