Ralph Bowen is a jazz saxophonist who began his career with the Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 group Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue (band)

Out of the Blue was an American jazz ensemble founded by Blue Note Records in the 1980s as a showcase for the label's younger musicians. They formed in 1984, releasing four albums and touring extensively over the next five years. Their most commercially successful album was 1986's Live at Mt....

 before releasing several albums for the Dutch label Criss Cross Jazz

Criss Cross Jazz

Criss Cross Jazz is a Dutch jazz record label, specializing in American jazz.Criss Cross was founded in 1980 by Gerry Teekens, a drummer and German professor. The label, which releases about 20 albums per year, is noted for its simple, block-color cover art...

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He has appeared on albums by Orrin Evans

Orrin Evans

Orrin Evans is an American jazz pianist.Evans was born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia. He attended Rutgers University, and following this studied with Kenny Barron. He worked as a sideman for Bobby Watson, Ralph Peterson, Duane Eubanks, and Lenora Zenzalai-Helm, and released his...

, Benny Carter

Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King...

, Canadian fusion group Manteca

Manteca (band)

Manteca is a Canadian jazz fusion band that toured during the 1980s and 1990s. It was formed by percussionist Matt Zimbel and bassist Henry Heillig in 1979.Their repertoire consisted of pieces composed by keyboardist Aaron Davis and Rick Tait...

, Earl MacDonald

Earl MacDonald

Earl MacDonald , is a music arranger, composer, jazz pianist and music educator. Director of jazz studies at the University of Connecticut, the Winnipeg native earned a bachelor of music degree in jazz performance at McGill University and a master of music degree at Rutgers, where he apprenticed...

, Flamenco group Ketama

Ketama

Ketama are a Spanish flamenco group in the fusion flamenco style. The leaders of what has been called New Flamenco, they brought a style that was somewhere between flamenco and pop salsa onto the musical scene that drew as much criticism as praise, but which has won over the young public and has...

, Charles Fambrough

Charles Fambrough

Charles Fambrough was a Jazz bassist, composer and record producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Fambrough was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers during the early 1980s...

 and others.

As a leader

• Movin' On (1992) Criss Cross Records
• A Morning View (2001) Ratamacue Records
• Soul Proprietor (2002) Criss Cross Records
• Keep the Change (2004) Criss Cross Records
• Five (2008) Criss Cross Records
• Dedicated (2009) Posi-Tone Records
• Due Reverence (2010) Posi-Tone Records
• Power Play (2011) Posi-Tone Records

As a co-leader

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue (band)

Out of the Blue was an American jazz ensemble founded by Blue Note Records in the 1980s as a showcase for the label's younger musicians. They formed in 1984, releasing four albums and touring extensively over the next five years. Their most commercially successful album was 1986's Live at Mt....

• Out of the Blue (1985) Blue Note Records
• Inside Track (1986) Blue Note Records
• Live in Mt Fuji (1986) Blue Note Records
• Spiral Staircase (1989) Blue Note Records

Other projects

• Free Trade (1994) Justin Time Records
• LUVPARK (2004) Imani Records

As a sideman

With Michel Camilo

Michel Camilo

Michel Camilo is a pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He specializes in jazz, Latin and classical piano work...

• On the Other Hand (1990) Columbia Records
• One More Once
  One More Once
  - Track listing :#"One More Once" -7:18#"Why Not!" -7:07#"The Resolution" -5:11#"Suite Sandrine, Pt. 3" -19:50#"Dreamlight" -11:12#"Just Kiddin'" -3:25...
  
  (1994) Columbia Records
• Two Much (soundtrack album from the film Two Much
  Two Much
  Two Much is a 1995 romantic screwball comedy film based on Donald Westlake's novel of the same name, and is also a remake of the 1984 French comedy film Le Jumeau, which was also based on Westlake's novel. Directed by Fernando Trueba, Two Much stars Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah...
  
  ) (1995) Verve Records

With Orrin Evans

• Captain Black (1998) Criss Cross Records
• Old Folks Business (1999) Criss Cross Records
• Listen to the Band (2000) Criss Cross Records
• Meant to Shine (2002) Palmetto Records

With Earl MacDonald

Earl MacDonald

Earl MacDonald , is a music arranger, composer, jazz pianist and music educator. Director of jazz studies at the University of Connecticut, the Winnipeg native earned a bachelor of music degree in jazz performance at McGill University and a master of music degree at Rutgers, where he apprenticed...

• Schroeder's Tantrum (1995) Radioland
• "Re:Visions - works for jazz orchestra" (2010) Death Defying Records

With Horace Silver

Horace Silver

Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....

• Rockin' with Rachmaninoff
  Rockin' with Rachmaninoff
  Rockin' with Rachmaninoff is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, recorded in 1991 and released on the Bop City label in 2003, featuring performances by Silver with Michael Mossman, Bob Summers, Ricky Woodard, Ralph Bowen, Doug Webb, Andy Martin, Bob McChesney, Bob Maize, and Carl Burnett, with...
  
  (1991)

Complete Discography

2011

• Ralph Bowen "Power Play" Posi-tone
• Anthony Branker & Ascent "Dance Music" Origin
• Jared Gold "All Wrapped Up" Posi-Tone
• Captain Black Big Band (Self-Titled) Posi-Tone

2010'

• Ralph Bowen "Due Reverence" Posi-tone
• John Hyde "John Hyde Quartet"
• Jim Rotondi "The Move" Criss Cross
• Nino Josele "Espanola" Warner

2009

• Ralph Bowen "Dedicated" Posi-tone
• Kenny Davis Group "Kenny Davis" Daken
• Anthony Branker & Ascent "Blessings" Origin

2008

• The Brenan Brothers "The Throwdown" Death-Defying
• Jim Trompeter Quintet "Live at the Green Mill"
• Andrew/Hutchinson Trio "Music Box"
• Papo Vaquez Mighty Pirates "Marooned" Aislado
• Ralph Bowen Quintet "Five" Criss Cross

2006

• Ralph Bowen LUVPARK II Imani
• Anthony Branker & Ascent "Spirit Songs" Origin

2005

• Brian Lynch "Con Clave" Criss Cross
• Tony Deangelis "Everybody's Song"

2004

• Horace Silver "Rockin' w/Rachmoninov Bop City
• LUVPARK "Luvpark" Imani
• Ralph Bowen Quintet "Keep the Change" Criss Cross
• Sciora "Sciora"

2003

• Mark Sweetman "Remembering John Coltrane" Marcmuse

2002

• Orrin Evans "Meant to Shine" Palmetto
• Ralph Bowen "Soul Proprietor" Criss Cross

2001

• Ralph Bowen "A Morning View" Ratamacue
• Marc Sweetman "All Paths Lead to One" Marcmuse
• Bob Murphy Quartet "Free On The Inside" Roadhouse
• Craig Schoedler "By the Water" Progressive
• Vince Dimura "Imperfect Balance" Dimura

2000

• The Fins "Superstar" Fins
• Seed "Seed" Hipnotic
• Orrin Evans "Listen to the Band" Criss Cross
• Len Bryant "It's Now Midnight" Len

1999

• Ralph Peterson "Back to Stay" Sirocco
• Orrin Evans "Old Folk's Business" Criss Cross

1998

• Orrin Evans "Captain Black" Criss Cross
• Dawn Warren "Dawn" Imani
• Marc Sweetman "Inspired" Marc Muse
• K-Jazz All-Stars/Amigos "Spirit Talk" K-Jazz
• Nilda Fernandez "Innu Nikamu" EMI

1997

• George Johnson "Turquoise Ocean" A Records
• The Fins "Blues Print" Fins
• K-Jazz All-Stars "Strait Ahead" K-Jazz
• Earl McDonald "Schroeder's Tantrum" CBC

1996

• Michel Camilo "Too Much" Verve
• John Serry "Enchantress" Telarc
• Esque "Strangers No More" K-Jazz

1995

• Michel Camilo "Two Much Soundtrack" Verve
• Fortune/Vinson/Cruse "Crusin'" K-Jazz

1994

• Charles Fambrough "Keeper of the Spirit" Audioquest
• Free Trade "Free Trade" Justin Time
• Michel Camilo "One More Once" Columbia
• Vince Dimura "Black on White" Angel Tear
• Barry Sames "Awaiting the Spirit" Intrigue

1993

• Jon Herington "Complete Rhyming Dictionary"
• Pioneer Various Artists "Jazz Valentine-In the Mood" Music Masters

1992

• Ralph Bowen "Movin' On" Criss Cross
• Benny Carter "Harlem Renaissance" Music Masters

1991

• Horace Silver "Rockin' with Rachmoninov" Emerald

1990

• Michel Camilo "On the Other Hand" Columbia
• Renee Rosnes "Renee Rosnes" Blue Note
• Bobby Watson & Horizon "Post-Motown Bop" Blue Note

1989

• OTB "Spiral Staircase" Blue Note

1986

• Various Artists "Blue Note '86" Blue Note
• OTB "Live at Mt. Fuji" Blue Note
• OTB "Inside Track" Blue Note

1985

• OTB "Out of the Blue" Blue Note
• Manteca "Extra, Extra" Duke Street
• Manteca "Strength in Numbers" Ready