Results for "Bob Downes"

Bob Downes

Born: July 22, 1937

Presenting Problem

by Duncan Heining
January 30, 2018

Jazz often appears to exist within its own cultural and artistic paradigm, isolated from other arts and in its own discreet musical corner. Worse still from the perspective of those who would hope to make a living from it, it often seems that more people want to play the music than listen to it or, more ...

Let Your Mind...Space Out

By Bob Downes

Label: Openian
Released: 2017
Track listing: Let Your Mind Space Out; Genie; Thelonious; On The Run; Predator; Land Of The Red Man; Magdalena Jetelova; Chant; Feelin' Good; Natural Being; Him Bin Go; Going On A Journey.

It's A Mystery

By Bob Downes

Label: ReR Megacorp
Released: 2017
Track listing: It's A Mystery; Dream Journey; Imminent Danger; Predator; Floating Shapes; Night Fear; You Leave Me Breathless; Barker; Coming Together; Spaced Out; Surprise Encounters; Voodoo Man.

Bob Downes Open Music: Let Your Mind...Space Out

by Roger Farbey
August 31, 2017

Any CD release by Bob Downes is a significant event but the psych-entitled Let Your Mind...Space Out is important because it also celebrates the 80th birthday of this virtuoso jazz multi-instrumentalist. It's hard to credit that Downes, like his contemporaries Mike Westbrook and Mike Gibbs has now achieved octogenarian status, given that his early oeuvre was ...

Bob Downes Open Music: It's A Mystery

by Roger Farbey
March 31, 2017

Pursuing his self-styled Open Music route, multi-instrumentalist Bob Downes treads a very thin and courageous line between written jazz and total improvisation. Of his many recordings, some funky jazz rock, others wholly extemporized, there are several which involve organised pieces evolving into often lengthy improvisations. It's A Mystery (not to be confused with the pop song ...

Blowin' With Bass

By Bob Downes

Label: Openian
Released: 2016
Track listing: Occidental Oriental; Touch Down; Dawn Dreams; Just a Minute; Dark Corners; Starbust Galaxy; Cocowanna; On the Edge; Coasting; Joy Ride; Bluesing; Living for a Dream.

Bob Downes Open Music: Blowin' With Bass

by Claudio Bonomi
June 2, 2016

Bob Downes, compositore e polistrumentista britannico, estrae dal proprio magic box un'altra chicca che farà fellce gli appassionati di jazz, o meglio, di British Jazz. Il movimento che, a partire della fine degli anni Sessanta, produsse un pimpante manipolo di musicisti-pionieri che ancora oggi calcano le scene internazionali come Evan Parker, John Surman, Keith Tippett, John ...

Barry Guy: Ploughs into Swordshares, Part 1-3

by Duncan Heining
February 21, 2016

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Edgar Varèse's defiant statement in the face of public and critical indifference -"The present day composer refuses to die"—could so easily apply to composer-bassist Barry Guy. He has earned over the years a deep and lasting respect from certain fans and critics, though more so in ...

Bob Downes and The Alphorn Brothers

By Bob Downes

Label: Openian
Released: 2015
Track listing: Heading For The Blues; Stomping; Dawn Approach; Dr. Love; I Got The Drift Baby; Goin’ Down To New Orleans; The Prowler; God Bless Your Blues; Pink Elephants; Sundown; When the Blues Are Bluer Than Blue; Reflections; Tatsunori Hasebe.