Paul Lovens, Sebi Tramontana, Fred Lonberg-Holm & Kent Kessler

The Empty Bottle

1035 North Western Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60622

The second of three Lampo concerts featuring Paul Lovens. Here the German percussionist meets trombonist Sebi Tramontana, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, and bassist Kent Kessler.

Paul Lovens (b.1949, Aachen, Germany) plays drums, percussion, singing saw and various selected and unselected cymbals. Since the early 1970s he has played with musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström, Günther Christmann, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Brötzmann, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Mats Gustafsson, Thomas Lehn, Phil Wachsmann, and Joëlle Léandre. He also played with Florian Schneider and Ebehard Kranemann in an early incarnation of Kraftwerk. Lovens has run the record label Po Torch with Paul Lytton since 1976.

Presented in conjunction with the Empty Bottle Jazz Series