Adventurous pianist/composer Nobu Stowe relocated from Baltimore to San Diego in 2011, a working psychologist who took a job at the Scripps Research Institute.
An accomplished pianist, improviser, composer, and recording artist, Stowe has five CDs under his belt, released on the important German labels, Konnex, and Italian company Soul Note. For his full-length Confusion Bleue, released in 2011, Stowe plays acoustic and electric piano, fronting an ensemble consisting of Lee Pembleton on electronics, Ross Bonadonna on guitars and alto saxophone, Tyler Goodwin on 5-string double bass, and Ray Sage on drums.
Stowe has also written scholarly articles on Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Bill Frisell and many others, for the Japanese magazine Tokyo Jazz and the Spanish magazine Toma Jazz.