Biography
Lane Stowe was
born to be a musician. The son of retired music
teachers, he is a versatile vocalist/horn player/bassist
who has sung and played with a variety of
musical groups during his 20 year career. Although jazz is
his first love, he also enjoys playing R&B, Rock and Roll, funk and
gospel, and he plays them all with great enthusiasm!
His formal musical training
began at age 8 when he began playing the trumpet in
elementary school band, later switching to trombone. In
high school in Upstate New York, he took up the
euphonium, and later took a crash course
(literally) playing sousaphone in the marching band, as well as
playing a variety of other brass instruments. It was also at this
time when Lane started to sing with the high school
jazz band and
chorus. This lead to Lane trying out and being selected for the
All-County, All-State, Regional and National High School Choirs
during his time in senior high. At 16 Lane took up the electric
bass, as he began studying the music of Marcus Miller and Jaco
Pastorius, as he was influenced by his bass-playing friends Sean
Tarleton and Jonathan Sanborn. During this time, Lane began playing
bass and horns
in local bands in the Hudson Valley, and began to
make a name for himself among the local musicians.
Lane graduated from Ithaca College in 1990 with a Bachelor of
Music degree in Voice Performance and a minor in Business
Management. While at Ithaca, Lane also studied jazz performance with
acclaimed jazz guitarist Steve Brown, and he also studied
vocal jazz
with David Riley, who is responsible for the creation of the
critically acclaimed vocal jazz group
“The New York Voices.”
Putting both parts of his degree to
use, Lane has worked in the financial services industry
for both Prudential Investments and The Vanguard Group,
and he currently is the Director of Marketing for
Lexington Capital Mortgage in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Lane is also the trumpet player and a lead vocalist with
the
Family Affair Orchestra,
a Jazz/Top 40/funk/R&B band which plays throughout the
Philadelphia Metro and Atlantic regions. Lane also works
as a clinician with high school jazz ensembles and high
school choirs throughout New York and Pennsylvania.
During his career, Lane has had the opportunity to
perform with an incredible list of entertainers that
includes jazz artists The New York Voices,
Lew Tabackin,
Marvin Stamm,
Tony Levin,
Jack DeJohnette,
Bernard Purdie, Chris
Vadala, Steve Gilmore, Gus Mancini, Pat Cerello, Tom
Hamilton, Ed Alstrom, Freddie Hendrix, John Korba, Jan
Stevens and Rick Altman. Lane has also had the
opportunity to perform as a classical soloist with the
Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, the "Opera IV"
opera
company of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the "Ars
Choralis" Choral Society of Woodstock, New York - he's
even sung as a soloist at
Carnegie Hall, St.
Patrick's Cathedral and Town Hall in NYC!
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