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Blue Touch Paper: Drawing Breath
Label: Provocateur Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Attention Seeker; Isadora; Heaven; Suddenly a Tango; Juggling With Strangers; The Joke; Fair is Foul; Watch Out; Drawing Breath; Neon Shadows; Yes But No; 48 Prefabs and Forks No. 60.
Blue Touch Paper: Drawing Breath
by John Kelman
It's difficult enough for an artist or group to deliver their sophomore effort, but it's even more of a challenge when their debut is as strong as Blue Touch Paper's surprising Stand Well Back (Provocateur, 2011). Blue Touch Paper is the brainchild of British keyboardist/composer Colin Towns, who has already garnered plenty of acclaim for his ...
Colin Towns: Rule Book? What Rule Book?
by Ian Patterson
Since the 1970s, internationally renowned English composer/arranger/pianist/keyboard player Colin Towns has enjoyed an extremely varied musical existence. In that time, he has composed and arranged music in just about every setting imaginable, from heavy rock groups to jazz ensembles both small and large, and from theater to film and ballet. Little wonder, then, that his first ...
Blue Touch Paper: Stand Well Back
Label: Provocateur Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Blue Touch Paper; Crazy Man on Platform 13; Say What You Mean; The Forbidden Dance; Another Time, Another Place; Lost for Words; Stand Well Back/Spit It Out; Ducking and Diving; One Eye on the Clock; Principal Dancer; Walls Have Ears; Transcending; This Could Run.
John Lennon - In My Own Write
By Colin Towns
Label: Provocateur Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite; Time Waits for No One; Come Together; Cold Turkey; Woman; Revolution; What You Got; Solar Wind; Across the Universe; Nowhere Man; Give Peace a Chance; Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds / I Want You (She's So Heavy). CD2: Whatever Gets You Through the Night; Jealous Guy; Slow Going; Tomorrow Never Knows; Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy); Strawberry Fields Forever; A Day in the Life; Imagine.
Blue Touch Paper: Stand Well Back
by John Kelman
Blue Paper Touch Stand Well Back Provocateur Records 2011 Based on his recent work, creating impressive big band tribute projects including Visions of Miles--The Electric Period of Miles Davis (In+Out, 2009) and John Lennon--In My Own Write (Provocateur, 2011), it might be understandable to think of Colin Towns as an ...
Stand Well Back / Spit It Out
Album: Stand Well Back
By Blue Touch Paper
Label: Provocateur Records
Released: 0
Duration: 06:56
Colin Towns & The NDR Big Band: John Lennon - In My Own Write
by John Kelman
Since 2005, British arranger/conductor Colin Towns has trawled the discographies of Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis for collaborative potential with Germany's NBR Big Band. In every case--most recently, on Visions of Miles (In + Out, 2009)--the focus was on source material in and around the jazz sphere, with plenty of built-in grist for Towns' ...
P.S.
Label: Provocateur Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Reverie; Glencarron; Les Mains D'Alice; He Stood in His Shoes and He Wondered; Art House Soft Leg Incident; Mer de Glace; Messala; Joni; Say So; Touch.
Andy Sheppard / John Parricelli: P.S.
by John Kelman
Sometimes artists are better known for the company they keep than their own work. Despite leading an active musical life with over ten releases as a leader, British saxophonist Andy Sheppard is likely best known to North American audiences for work with composer/pianist Carla Bley, like The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (Watt, 2007). British guitarist ...
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