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Zack Lober

A native of Montreal, Canada, via NYC and Boston, Zack Lober is a bassist, composer, DJ, and music producer now based in The Netherlands.  He is a co-founder of the critically acclaimed jazz group "The Story" and leads his own group called "The Ancestry Project", a performance piece featuring music and video that also incorporates his musical explorations with turntables. He is also the co-leader of the collective quartet “Landline” along with fellow members Chet Doxas, Jacob Sacks, and Vinnie Sperrazza. His latest Netherlands based trio project NO FILL3R features drummer Sun-Mi Hong and trumpeter Suzan Veneman. He is active as an educator and clinician and holds a Masters degree from the Manhattan School of Music.

He has performed as a band member in groups led by artists including David Binney, Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, Frank London, John Escreet, Greg Ward, Jamie Baum, Jerry Bergonzi, Phil Grenadier, Jason Palmer and Chet Doxas and has also performed throughout Europe, India, Mexico, Canada, and the United States in bands led by Ingrid Jensen, Christine Jensen, Benoit Charest, Christophe Schweizer, as well as with "The Story". 

Zack is also active in the rock and pop world and has performed and/or recorded with artists including Caro Emerald, Zach Williams (of The Lone Bellow), Jessica Williams (Girls), The Swingle Singers, Emma Frank, Alejandra Ribera, Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy (The Cult).


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Album Review

Mark Lotz: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out!

Read "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out!" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


There's a curious sense of humor rampant throughout flautist Mark Lotz's 2023 trio outing Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out!. And why shouldn't there be? Given the nature of Lotz's inspiration--acid folk-hero Timothy Leary's era defining treatise by the same title--the music should be that and a whole lot more. And it is! Lotz, a three decade veteran of the hotbed Dutch jazz scene who has recorded/gigged with Chris Potter, Don Byron and a host of ...

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Zack Lober: NO FILL3R

Read "NO FILL3R" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Bassist Zack Lober has been part of the worlds of jazz and musical improvisation for some time but this is his debut as a leader, heading a frisky trio which also includes trumpet and drums. This album was recorded in the Netherlands and has Lober playing with trumpeter Suzan Veneman and drummer Sun-Mi Hong. The three combine for a tight, compact sound which is most immediately striking when Veneman's trumpet drifts melodically over the undulating rhythms laid down ...

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Zack Lober, Orbit, Chris Potter & Family Band

Read "Zack Lober, Orbit, Chris Potter & Family Band" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


This one's kind of all over the place: pure free jazz from the German trio of saxophonist Frank Paul Schubert, guitarist Kazuhisa Uchihashi & drummer Klaus Kugel, hard nosed music from Chris Potter, English quartet, Family Band, trio music from France's Orbit and the Aussie avant-garde trio The Necks' latest, a further voyage into ZZAJ: Jazz From The 23rd Century, and Canadian transplant bassist Zack Lober with his Dutch group.Playlist Amina Claudine Myers “The Blues (Straight To You)" ...

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Chet Doxas: Rich in Symbols II

Read "Rich in Symbols II" reviewed by Troy Dostert


One of Chet Doxas' more distinctive projects, Rich in Symbols (Ropeadope, 2017), involved the saxophonist/clarinetist engaging the 1980s art movement of New York's Lower East Side, composing pieces that reflected his deep interactions with some of those iconic paintings. Now he has done the same with artists from his native Canada: specifically, the Group of Seven, a movement of landscape artists who were active from the early 1910s through the first years of the 1930s. By selecting several of their ...

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NO FILL3R

ZenneZ Records
2023

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Turn On, Tune In,...

ZenneZ Records
2023

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Rich in Symbols II

Justin Time Records
2022

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Landline

Loyal Label
2019

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Rich in Symbols

Ropeadope
2017

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The Story

Self Produced
2009

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