# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-downes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:35:39.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-downes"
name: "Bob Downes"
slug: "bob-downes"
description: "Robert George Downes is an English avant-garde jazz flautist and saxophonist. He is known for his work with Mike Westbrook and for leading the Open Music Trio since 1968. Downes is also a composer, arranger, and singer of rock and blues."
tagline: "British jazz musician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-07-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.61
  momentum:             0.4705882352941177
  historical:           7.673074666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bobdownesmusic.de/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/132314"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Downes"
    title: "Bob Downes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Downes"
    title: "Bob Downes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بوب داونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بوب داونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Downes"
    title: "Bob Downes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Downes"
    title: "Bob Downes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ボブ・ダウンズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1715e9da-596a-43aa-aaba-6fca6a6c24c1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887895"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump