LENNY MAC DOWELL
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, RnB, World Fusion, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Classic Fusion, Acid Jazz • Germany

Flautist Lenny MacDowell is based in Germany, where he's an integral part of the local smooth jazz and new age music scenes, as a performer, a producer, and as owner of the eclectic and productive Blue Flame record label. Although some of his albums have a heavy crossover pop influence, MacDowell's primary style involves elements of ambient music, world music, jazz, and new age, combined in varying percentages from album to album. Friedemann Leinert, a name he still occasionally uses as a producer and arranger, MacDowell was classically trained as a flautist before getting involved in the fruitful German progressive music scene of the '70s. Stints in lesser-known Krautrock and progressive jazz bands like Holderlin and Birth Control saw him through the '70s, but, by the early '80s, Leinert had struck out on his own and adopted the name Lenny MacDowell. (Actually, on several sleeves, it's spelled "Lenny Mac Dowell" for read more...