Jazz on flute with the
Marvelously atmospheric flute-fronted jazz from the Netherlands. ...
Blue Moods is one of the most satisfying flute-jazz offerings in
recent memory.
-- (All about
jazz)
While Lotz mostly is associated with settings in the improvised and world music scene the Mark Lotz Standard Quartet focuses on: mainstream jazz music.
Next to lot'z of compositions by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Mark Lotz selects its repertoire from the vast number of regrettably lesser known but equally fine tunes out of the American and Brazilian fare, which turn out to be highly suitable for flute. Within the intimate quartet setting the focus lies on Mark's virtuosity within the jazz canon.
The CD Blue Moods with the Mark Lotz Quartet featuring a.o. Peter and Marius Beets was released in 1999 on Via Records.
This quartet is showing an empathy and interplay worthy of some of
the great small bands in jazz history.
-- (Pan, UK)
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