Says the press about Mark Alban Lotz:

Global Rhythm, Jan 2005

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• Lotz experienced and cristal clear playing fascinated the audience. (General Anzeiger)
• Dutch Flute Master. (All About Jazz)
• Lotz has a strong voice on flute and a great sense of presentation. He delivers an intriguing programme of progressive chamber jazz. (Cadence Magazine (2007))
• Ambitious composer of unique contexts. ... . Lotz is a serious flutist with a nice edgy tone and firm comand of several different stylistic bags. (Cadence Magazine July 1998)
• Mark Lotz is a flute master in traditional up to hypnoticing modern settings. ... . Cascades of sound by Lotz starting with barking to waves, snoring, screaming or intimate ministrels. Lotz makes musical love with his flute in all thinkable ways in inventive, dynamic harmonisations and multivocal conversations. (UNI Magazine (Czechos Republic))
• Mark Alban Lotz: unique flute in jazz (BN/De Stem)
• He is an unprecedented phenomenon in the Dutch impro-scene. (Draaiomjeoren.com)
• Excellent flute playing of Mark Lotz. A prolific virtuoso, ... he brings a freshness ... to stretch the tracks beyond their initial impact. (FLY Magazine (UK))
• The clever jazz flute stylings of Mark Alban Lotz insert brilliant floating flavor to the highly addictive “Carjive.” (jazzreview.com)
• Mark Alban Lotz a legend on different flutes. (Africa News, Tontonjovo)
• Mark Alban Lotz - a German-Dutch genius and flute master (WRUV, T.Basanta)
• Mark Lotz is more than just a big voice in the European jazz scene. He is at the forefront of jazz, classical and World Music and is obviously enjoying every minute of it! (www.latinjazznet.com)
• World Class Flutist! (Surinam Times)
• A big voice in the European Jazz scene. (La Traversiere)
• Masculine, exciting, superb. (Pan Magazine (UK))
• Errant Jazzman. (Global Rhythm Magazine (US))
• Lotz's chosen instrument sets him apart, of course, but so does his skill as an improviser. He's a daring, spontaneous soloist, who manages to invest the flute with the sort of earthiness one might more logically expect from a saxophonist. (allmusic.com)
• Besides his mastery of his instruments Lotz demonstrates a few things you won't learn at school: fantasy, sense for colours and drama plus humorous playfulness. (NRC Handelsblad)
• Taking the past as a starting point Lotz opens a view into the jazz of the future. (Nieuwsblad v/h Noorden)
• Hearing Lotz you have to change the prejudice about the soft sounding flute. (TAZ Bremen)
• ... on the bass flute Lotz reached into the essence of art: ... he allowed a glimpse into the underworld where nothing can be seen but much is to be heard. (Frankenpost)
• German flutist set the standard at the SJU Jazz Festival '94. (Trouw)
• Lotz turned out to be a sensitive and versatile instrumentalist. His apparently unlimited richness of variation was brilliant. (Schwäbische Post)
• Lotz does not seem to be bothered by technical limits. (Jazzfreak)
• Lotz is a flutist who has no doubt established himself in the rich contmeporary music alongside Robert Dick and Michel Edelin. (La Traversiere)
• The best-dressed flutist of the world. (Utrechts Nieuwsblad)
• Lotzens performance was so to say a lecture in the case: flute. (Schaebische Zeitung)