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The Jazz Project Big Band

Thanks for the Memories: The Music of Ken Downing

By The Jazz Project Big Band

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: Gordo; Naima; Jumpin' Jeannie; Thanks for the Memories; Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most; Smilin' Aztec; Vicki; Nica's Dream; So Many Times; Walkin'.

The Jazz Project Big Band: Thanks for the Memories: The Music of Ken Downing

by Jack Bowers
September 10, 2006

As the San Diego-based Jazz Project Big Band has chosen to devote an entire album to the music of Ken Downing, one might reasonably ask who Ken Downing is. (I know I did.) The short answer is that Downing, who died of cancer in 1983 at age 55, was an Oklahoman, born and educated in Tulsa, ...