Mark Lotz Trio
contemporary jazz
contemporary jazz
A trio in free flight.
The Mark Lotz Trio performs a new project: “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out” with two youngsters on the Dutch scene: Jamie Peet and Zack Lober hailing from NYC. Both two highly versatile musicians, blindly matching with the improvisations and compositions of Lotz.
A project around LSD Guru Timothy Leary!
New data in 2022!
Won twice (!) in the BEST OF 2019 at the New York Jazz City Records Magazine and was featured twice (!) as ‘New Recommended Release‘ at New York Jazz Record Magazine (july/august).
All About Jazz (USA)
“Mark Alban Lotz is bringing sexy back into jazz.”
UKVibe (Great Britain)
“This is the spirit of jazz in its truest form.”
Polish Jazzblog Spot (Poland)
“Stellar example of musical chemistry and the essence of the sound.”
Walkers (Japan)
“Comes roaring powerfully.”
Jazz Da Gama (Canada)
“This is an album to die for.”
Flute Journal (UK)
“Pure genius.”
In 2018 Mark Lotz went to Poland to perform concerts, hold masterclasses and lecture. There he met the young bass virtuoso Grzegorz Piasecki. The mutual understanding and inspiration was evident, drummer Wojciech Buliński joined and a new exciting ensemble came to live. There they recorded their debut album ‘The Wroclaw Sessions’.
Poland has a long and rich jazz tradition. After Tomasz Stanko and Krystof Komeda, more and more new Polish musicians are coming to the forefront of the international music scene (for example, ECM artists Maciej Obara and Marcin Masecki). Here a collaboration with two Polish musicians from an exciting new Polish generation.
Timothy Leary is a prominent figure of the 60s. He was an American psychologist and writer who promoted LSD for therapeutic use in psychiatry.
Taking his Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness as point of departure the Mark Lotz trio will perform new compositions. Music that will let u think that you look through the eyes of a strange insect.
With Zack Lober on bass and Jamie Peet on drums.
2018; Masterclass at Karol Lipiński Academy of Music, Wroclaw, Poland
2018; Masterclass at Instytut Jazzu PWSZ, Nysa, Poland
2018; Workshop at Szkoła Muzyczna I i II stopnia im, Krakow, Poland
2018; Lecture and solo recital at the International Scientific & Educational Conference Jazz XXI, Akademia Muzyczna, Krakowie, Poland
2020; HKU Utrecht Conservatory
Soloist, composer, producer in jazz and contemporary music often crossing borders with other cultures. Collaborations spans an arc with film, theater, performance art, visual arts and dance.
Worked with many unknown and many famous but equally gifted unique voices in music all around the globe. Subject of international publications, prize-winner, nominated for the Edison and Beyond Magazine prize.
Professor for flute at the Utrecht and Rotterdam Conservatories.
Zack Lober is a bassist, composer, DJ and music producer. Originally from Montreal, Canada, he spent 11 years in NYC and 3 years in Boston working and performing with numerous top artists. Now residing in the Netherlands, he is the leader of “NO FILL3R” a trio project featuring drummer Sun-Mi Hong and trumpeter Suzan Veneman as well as "The Ancestry Project”, a music and video performance that also incorporates his musical discoveries with turntables. He has performed in groups led by artists such as David Binney, Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, Frank London, John Escreet, Greg Ward, Jamie Baum, Lars Dietrich and Chet Doxas. He has toured all over Europe, India, Mexico, Canada and the United States in bands led by Ingrid Jensen, Christine Jensen, Benoit Charest, and Christophe Schweizer among many others.
Jamie Peet (29) is one of the most in-demand drummers in the (inter-)national jazz scene.Currently playing with keyboardist Niels Broos, Tony Roe; Tinmen &the Telephone. Ben van Gelder.
And performs with a.o. Ramon Valle, Dominc J. Marshall, Lars Dietrich, and more. Jamie has spurred the likes of many greats, including Gregory Porter and pianist Kris Bowers, with whom Jamie has both toured with.