Lowell Davidson Trio
Lowell Davidson Trio
(ESP)

LOWELL DAVIDSON’S one and only album, released by pioneering avant-garde label ESP in 1965, has the face of a young black man resolutely looking outwards, his steel-rimmed glasses reflecting the keys of his piano.

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Leading a life which combined scientific research with the new wave in jazz took him to New York, where he played with Ornette Coleman on his ESP album, before returning to Boston and resuming his life in science. It ended after a laboratory accident created physical and mental trauma, leading to his death in July 1990.