Paul Lovens

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Paul Lovens (born in Aachen, Germany, 6 June 1949) is a musician. He plays drums, percussion, singing saw and various selected and unselected cymbals. He has also performed with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra and Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra.

Since 1970, he has been one of the most prominent drummers in Europe in the improvised music scene.^{[citation needed]} He was part of the Schlippenbach Trio, and since then has played with musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström, Günther Christmann, Eugene Chadbourne, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Mats Gustafsson, Thomas Lehn, Phillipp Wachsmann, and Joëlle Léandre.

Lovvens has run the record label Po Torch with Paul Lytton since 1976.

Lovens' recent titles include 1998, Swinging the BIM, FMP CD 114/15. Schlippenbach Trio; 1999, Joëlle Léandre Project, Leo LR CD287; 2001, Wellsprings suite, Cadence Jazz Records CJR 1176. Quintet Moderne.