Allen Lowe - tenor sax; Elijah Shiffer - alto sax and clarinet; Frank Lacy - trumpet; Ethan Kogan - drums; Will Goble - bass; Lewis Porter - piano

“The unruly beauty of Mr. Lowe’s music has long been grounded in specific lineages yet also consistently blurs styles and eras.” - Larry Blumenfeld, The Wall Street Journal Sept 24, 2024

Louis Armstrong's America is a progressive look at the musical eras through which Armstrong lived. The music is all original and composed by Allen Lowe and includes works composed with reference to: James Reese Europe, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Aaron Copland, Jaki Byard, Frank Zappa, and others.

Allen Lowe is a saxophonist, composer, and American music historian. He has recorded as a leader with Julius Hemphill, David Murray, Gary Bartz, Marc Ribot, Roswell Rudd, Doc Cheatham, Ken Peplowski, Ursula Oppens, and others. In his very first jazz band (as a teenager, with the pianist Anthony Coleman) he opened for Eubie Blake at his comeback appearance in 1968. He has written 6 books on American music. The New York Times called him "a musical anthropologist." In 2021 he was named Artist of the Year by Jazz Times Magazine. He has survived 20 surgeries for cancer, and just released 4 compact discs in 2 volumes on ESP DISK called Louis Armstrong’s America.