Chris Bowden Trio

Chris Bowden started his professional career in the heart of the acid jazz boom playing sessions and shows for Talking Loud’s K-Creative. In 1996 Chris Bowden released his first album ‘Time Capsule’. Space jazz with the rigour of a classicist, by turns forbidding and kitsch, it established Chris as a talent in his own right. Over the years he has performed for American jazz legends James Mason and Doug Karn. Chris’s second album ‘Slightly Askew’ became synonymous with the future jazz movement and propelled his status further leading to three BBC Jazz Award nominations. A collaborative project with the 45 piece Heritage Orchestra took his repertoire to a new audience with appearances at The Barbican Centre, the Montreaux Jazz Festival, the Big Chill Festival and his home town CBSO Centre in Birmingham. He was asked to contribute to the commemorative remix album marking the anniversary of Serge Gainsbourg’s passing for Universal Jazz France and it was here he re-found his love of the small ensemble. This is encapsulated on his trio recordings with The Tomorrow Band. Here we see the work of Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman amongst other giants, stripped to the bare bones.