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Bob Downes: Open Music

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by Roger Farbey
April 4, 2010

Open Music was Bob Downes' debut album, recorded for the Philips label in 1969 and his impact on the UK scene was such that he was voted top place in the flute category of the Melody Maker jazz poll's British musician section for three consecutive years from 1972. It has until now never been reissued on ...

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Bob Downes: Electric City

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by Roger Farbey
April 1, 2010

Despite this 1970 album having been previously reissued on CD in Germany and Japan, this is the first time it has received such an accolade in the United Kingdom, its country of origin. Bob Downes is a talented multi-instrumentalist and composer and this album was one of his incursions into the world of jazz-rock, although he ...

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Flashback

By Bob Downes

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2009
Track listing: Brasilian Beauty; Funky Groove(I); Funky Groove (II); Wavelength; Asian Aura; Wailing; Whorefying Experience; Seashore; Maya; Blues Ride; Walkin' Runnin' Man; West Eleven.

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Bob Downes Open Music Trio: Flashback

Read "Flashback" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
December 12, 2009

Bob Downes may be a name unfamiliar to many, but to some his name is synonymous with an electrifying period in British jazz. Downes was on the cusp of this new movement and recorded some idiosyncratic albums between 1969 and 1970. Deep Down Heavy was almost a rock album, whereas the as yet un-reissued Open Music ...

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