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Mike Downes
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Noted as a profoundly musical bassist with a keen melodic sense, Toronto-based composer, arranger and bassist Mike Downes has released award-winning recordings ranging from solo bass, trio and quartet to large ensemble. His arrangements were most recently featured with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. International Society of Bassists calls him "As gifted a composer as he is a bassist" and guitar great Pat Metheny calls Downes “one of my favorite bass players.”
His extensive discography includes projects as a band-leader, performer, composer and producer. His own Ripple Effect won a 2014 JUNO award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year and Root Structure was the 2018 JUNO award winner for Jazz Album of the Year: Solo. Root Structure inspired UK Vibe to write “5/5 - This album is as close to perfect as it is possible to get and fully warrants its rating here. Buy it!” His most recent album The Way In is slated for release in March, 2024.
All New Music From Sonic Skin, Annie Chen, Debby Wang, And More
by Bob Osborne
On this show we present all new music from Sonic Skin, Annie Chen, Debby Wang, Ari Joshua featuring John Medeski and Billy Martin, The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, Daniel Reyes Llinás, Christian Fabian Trio, Teiku, Mike Downes, Paul Kendall, Gustavo Cortinas, and Alice Coltrane.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Annie Chen Rozpacz (Despair) from Guardians (JZ Music) ...
Convergence
By Nick Maclean
Label: Browntasauras Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dolphin Dance; Road Warrior; Brotherhood; Why The Caged Bird Sings; Eye Of The Hurricane; True North;
Butterfly;
Verboten; Lie Of Easy Attainment; Fragility Of Being; Wisdom Of Aurelius
Atlas
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Constellations Dehyah; Atlas; Wild Angels; From Sunshine; Campfire Ghosts; What's Left of the World; The First Mourning; Redemption; Commitment.
Dolphin Dance
Album: Convergence
By Nick Maclean
Label: Browntasauras Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:29
Redemption
Album: Atlas
By Matt Greenwood
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:38
All In
Label: Stubby Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: All In; One Step Ahead; Wait, What?; Watch Your Step; Five's Company; COVID Blues; Walk The Walk; Strange
Days; Inside Out; Let's Play.
Shuffle Demons: All In
by Chris M. Slawecki
There aren't too many bands still standing from back when Shuffle Demons first performed in 1984. Their tenth recording, All In features three saxophonists-- tenors Kelly Jefferson and Matt Lagan plus Richard Underhill on alto and baritone--plus acoustic bassist Mike Downes and drummer Stich Wynston tearing through ten new originals. With no chord instruments (piano, guitar) ...
Demons and Wizards, June Bugs and Jakarta
by Chris M. Slawecki
Hermeto Pascoal Planetario Da Gavea Far Out Recordings 2022 Planetario Da Gavea is an enormous, sprawling document from a February 1981 outdoor performance series by Brazilian jazz wizard Hermeto Pascoal recorded under the stars in the Gávea neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, within the dome of ...
The Shuffle Demons: All In
by Jack Bowers
With a three-saxophone front line and no piano, Canada's Shuffle Demons could be mistaken for the legendary Gerry Mulligan Quartet on steroidscould be, that is, until one hears the music, which bears scant resemblance to the West Coast cool espoused by Mulligan, Chet Baker and their colleagues. In other words, they're not called Shuffle Demons for ...