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Paul Downing
Paul studied bass guitar and composition at Leeds College Of Music and the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama.
He has worked extensively in the world of Pop, Jazz and Media Music both as a musician and composer.
His work has been released and performed all over the world and his production music has been synchronized to TV programs broadcast by numerous major channels, including the BBC, ITV, C4 & Sky.
Other credits include; Martha Reeves, Anne Clark, Mark Murphy, Cayenne, Coup D'Etat...
"With this quartet I'm aiming to explore a wide range of stylistic colours and create a broad improvisational palette, so that the soloists can feel free to stretch out. I believe strongly in melody and hold the groove to be sacred. Musical freedom and experimentation excite me and I'm always looking for new sounds and directions that work well within the genre of a contemporary jazz quartet."
Social Control Mechanism Number One
By Paul Downing
Label: Paulos Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Social Control Mechanism Number One; All Things Are Fleeting; Funky Hippo; Slinky Cyril; Cube Dance; Phi; Panda;
Spooky Action; Glib Superficial Charm; Funk Winder; Charisma; Just Another Sociopath; Social Control Mechanism
Number Two.
Paul Downing: Social Control Mechanism Number One
by Christopher Wheatley
Bassist Paul Downing is an artist with an eclectic taste whose music covers many grounds. In previous records, he has explored free improvisation, heavy funk, and, on Flight Through Cloudless Sky (Paulos Records, 1994), produced a fascinating suite of solo pieces performed using the meta-'cello, an instrument tuned in fourths. Social Control Mechanism Number One is ...