Results for "Charles Downs"

Charles Downs

Inner

By Charles Downs

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2026
Track listing: Inner 1; Inner 2; Inner 3; Inner 4; Inner 5.

Da Qi

By What You May Call It

Label: MechaBenzaiten Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Phil's Instant Dystopia; Reverie; Itch My Scratch; Da Qi.

Charles Downs: Inner

by Don Ball
August 20, 2026

It has been a long time coming for Charles Downs' debut recording as a leader. He began his career in the 1970s playing as Rashid Bakr with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker and others before reverting to his birth name in the new century. Since then, he has performed as part of ...

Luke Stewart, Silvia Bolognesi & Alexander Hawkins

by Maurice Hogue
May 12, 2025

I confess to having a thing about basses, particularly of the acoustic kind, so I got all excited when the latest Luke Stewart album rolled in. About to do a gig with his Remembrance Quintet, he change course and combined musicians from his Silt Trio and the Quintet for a live gig which was recorded with ...

Marty Ehrlich's Trio Exaltation, Loot, Enemy & Cosmic Ear

by Maurice Hogue
April 21, 2025

The much respected woodwind master, Marty Ehrlich, has a thing about trios--he feels a trio is a perfect vehicle to get to the essential core of music. Ehrlich has fronted several great trios with the most recent being Trio Exaltation. The 2018 debut of that band with bassist John Hébert and drummer Nasheet Waits was met ...

Felix Henkelhausen, Ochs / Morris / Downs & German Jazz Prize Nominees

by Maurice Hogue
April 14, 2025

Listening to a tune by German bassist Felix Henkelhausen while traveling in the car led me to check out what he was up to; I discovered he's been nominated for a 2025 German Jazz Prize in the Album of the Year category for Deranged Particles. Soon I was exploring other nominees and that led to incorporating ...

Winter Garden

By Joe McPhee

Label: ESP Disk
Released: 2021
Track listing: Rabble-Rouser; Recombinant; Harbinger; Incandescence; Glistening; Accretion; Winter Garden.

Flow Trio with Joe McPhee: Winter Garden

by Mark Corroto
May 17, 2021

The thing about free jazz is that it is very much like abstract expressionist painting. Many an inexperienced museum goer will spot a Jackson Pollock and say to herself, “I coulda done that." Actually, you couldn't. Same thing with free jazz. From a distance, it's all hubbub and din, but try your hand at it, and ...

Jazz At Atlas Kicks Off 2019 Season With Thumbscrew

March 9, 2019

This cooperative project features a trio of gifted musicians and composers—guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer/percussionist Tomas Fujiwara—performing their own compositions and selected standards with an exacting prowess wed to a liberated swing that is glorious to behold. Thumbscrew performs on Saturday, March 30 at 8 PM. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 ...