Sunday Train (1993)

Bass trombonist and tubaist Bill Lowe has been a major force in the music world for over thirty years as a performer, composer, producer, and educator.As co-leader of the Bill Lowe/Philippe Crettien Quintet, Lowe is co-producer and principal composer of that aggregation?s debut album, (Sunday Train). The 1991 French tour of the quintet included an engagement at the Sunset Club in Paris. The quintet served as featured performers and workshop faculty for the City of Toulon Jazz Festival, where Prof. Lowe was the Director of Pedagogy and Instruction from 1991 through 1995. Philippe Crettien born in the South of France, son of French diplomats grew up mostly in North Africa, USA and England. After listening to John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter and Sonny Rollins switch to the tenor saxophone in College. After one year studying Musicology in the Sorbonne University and jazz saxophone at the C.I.M in Paris, attended Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory in Boston.