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Bob Downes: Electric City
by Roger Farbey
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 ...
Eberhard Weber: Colours
by John Kelman
As the jazz-rock fusion movement gained ground from its early years in the late 1960s through its glory days in the early-to-mid-1970s—blending the more sophisticated harmonies of jazz with rock music's rhythmic power and high volume—all too often it was about muscular chops and complex writing for the sake of it. Little attention was paid to ...
Bob Downes Open Music Trio: Flashback
by Roger Farbey
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 ...
Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans
by Jack Bowers
Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...
Gilgamesh: Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into
by Nic Jones
British bass guitarist Hugh Hopper's recent death in the summer of 2009 throws this reissue into some sad relief. Recorded and originally released some 31 years ago, the fare is fusion of an order made rare by the fact that it's played with a measure of diffidence and an absence of empty technical fireworks. In short ...
Ian Carr, Jazz Trumpeter and Author of Miles Davis Biography, Dies
Ian Carr, a Scottish-born trumpeter who, like his formidable influence, Miles Davis, was an early practitioner of jazz-rock fusion and later repaid his artistic debt by writing Davis’s biography, died on Feb. 25 in London. He was 75. The cause was complications after pneumonia and a series of mini- strokes, Alyn Shipton, Mr. Carr’s biographer, said ...
Funeral Arrangements for Trumpeter Ian Carr
Following the sad passing of British trumpeter/bandleader Ian Carr on Feb 25, 2009, the funeral arrangements are as follows: Date: March 13, 2009 Time: 15:00 (GMT) Location: Golders Green Crematorium (West Chapel) Address: Hoop Lane, London, NW11 7NL Those interested may make donations to an Alzheimer's charity or support group ...
Ian Carr: 1933 - 2009
The British trumpet player and author Ian Carr died in London on Wednesday 25th February aged 75. He began his musical career in Newcastle in a band led by his brother Mike. Among the younger musicians he played with were John McLaughlin, Eric Burdon and Alan Price. When he moved to London he co-led a quintet ...
Soft Machine: Third through Seven Remasters
by John Kelman
While the merits of remastered reissues are the source of considerable debate, there's no denying that the discography of pioneering British jazz/rock band Soft Machine has been more deserving of attention than most. In the group's fourteen-year existence it shifted gears more often than outfits lasting considerably longer. Beginning in the late 1960s as a psychedelic ...
UK Tour ‘76
By Ian Carr
Label: Major League Productions
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Snakehips Etcetera 15:46; 02. Phaideaux Corner 11:32; 03. Alleycat 19:41; 04. Nosegay 7:36; 05. You Can't Be Sure 5:37; 06. Pastoral Graffiti 7:23; 07. Splat 12:01; 08. Alive and Kicking 22:12
