LOWE LEAVES POST AT MONTEREY JAZZ

Mundell Lowe, the guitarist and composer who for the last three years has been musical director of the Monterey Jazz Festival, has resigned.

Lowe said Tuesday that he will be musical director for a festival in Del Mar, to be produced in the spring of 1988 by Jack Wheaton, and that he will begin work soon on seeking talent for the event. “I will have complete artistic control over what happens there,” Lowe said. “I never did have that at Monterey.”

Founded in 1958, the Monterey event this year will be presented for the 30th time. Jimmy Lyons, founder and producer of the festival, was in Montevideo on vacation Wednesday and was unavailable for comment.