| Exotic Heartbreak | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Frank Lowe Quintet |
| Cover: | Exotic Heartbreak.jpg |
| Released: | 1982 |
| Recorded: | October 22 & 23, 1981 Barigozzi Studios, Milano, Italy |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 40:05 |
| Label: | Soul Note SN 1032 |
| Producer: | Giovanni Bonandrini |
| Chronology: | Kenny Wheeler |
| Prev Title: | Skizoke |
| Prev Year: | 1981 |
| Next Title: | Live from Soundscape |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
Exotic Heartbreak is an album by the Frank Lowe Quintet recorded in 1981 and released on the Soul Note label.[1]
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 4 stars, and commented: "Lowe's turn-of-the-decade band traded on raw finesse. There is nothing here... which swaps subtlety for power. And both should help dispel any notion of Lowe as an unsubtle roarer."
Writing for The New York Times, Robert Palmer stated: "Exotic Heartbreak... is an affectionate update on the sort of tightly arranged hard-bop album that was a specialty of the Blue Note label from the mid-1950's through the mid-1960's. Frank Lowe has developed a thoughtfully muscular approach to the tenor saxophone that's exceptionally resourceful and personal, and his bandmates... are similarly animated by both an exploratory bent and a love for the hard-bop tradition. This is Mr. Lowe's finest album to date."[2]
All compositions by Frank Lowe except as indicated