Results for "Mike Downes"

We Want All the Same Things

By Erin Propp

Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Each Hidden Joy; Hello Morning; We want All The Same Things; Farther On; Recomeçar; The Light; Give Me More; So Far Away; Tell Him; The Nearness Of You; Angels Gather There; À La Claire Fontaine

Each Hidden Joy

June 14, 2021

Album: We Want All the Same Things
By Erin Propp
Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:25

Crazy Time

By Shuffle Demons

Label: Stubby Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Cat Walk; Makin' it Right; Have a Good One; Wandering Heart; Good Karma; Crazy Time; Even Demons Get the Blues; Turbulence; Let It Go; Blue Chameleon.

Take Five with Bartosz Hadala

by Bartosz Hadala
May 1, 2020

Meet Bartosz Hadala Bartosz Hadala was born in Stalowa Wola, Poland and started his musical education at the age 7 at the local School of Music. Still as a teenager he participated in competitions, workshops and festivals. He became the youngest finalist in the Mieczyslaw Kosz International Jazz Piano Competition at the age 15. Two years ...

Cat Walk

March 6, 2020

Album: Crazy Time
By Shuffle Demons
Label: Stubby Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 03:47

Lee Morgan, Mike Downes & Nick Sanders

by Joe Dimino
June 6, 2019

With a legendary voice out of jny: Cleveland, Ohio on an ablum paying full respects to Tadd Dameron, we start the 599th episode of Neon Jazz with the tune “Kitchenette Across the Hall." From there, we listen to Sarah Vaughan and hear the great Tadd Dameron with his Sextet with the tune “The Squirrel." As the ...

Mike Downes

Born: August 16, 1964

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. 

John Pittman: Kinship

by Dan Bilawsky
August 18, 2018

The ineluctable charms of John Pittman's music may very well be connected to the sense of fellow feeling he projects on this, his debut album. For in these eight songs, the Canadian trumpeter promotes a sense of togetherness and unity that cuts not only to the title at hand, but also to the very core of ...

Root Structure

By Mike Downes

Label: Addo Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Momentum; Heart of the Matter; Miles; Moving Mountains; The Raven; Root Structure; Flow; Pre-Prelude; Prelude & Variations; Matter of the Heart

Root Structure

By Mike Downes

Label: Addo Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Momentum; Heart Of The Matter; Miles; Moving Mountains; The Raven; Root Structure; Flow; Pre- Prelude; Prelude And Variations; Matter Of The Heart.