He also toured the country for a decade with the Christian ministry "Majesty." In 2004, Bob founded Music Serving The Word Ministries (MSW) where he continues to create and encourage others to discover new and innovative ways for music to transcend mere performance and truly serve the living Word. In 2013, Bob dreamed up a project called LoveSong, which combines standard song lyric readings and other related poetry, with both straight-ahead jazz and freestyle solo piano renderings.Īn able and avid teacher, Bob has served on several university jazz studies faculties throughout his career. Both settings explore his love of free composition modalities. He remains a constant visionary who casts spheres of influence on both the Christian and artistic communities and unabashedly seeks captivating new ways to honor God with music and fine arts.īob's focus is the solo piano idiom as well as an improvisational collective that goes by the name Inner Journeys. Keep a lookout for future state-of-the-art releases.Pianist-keyboardist Bob Ravenscroft is an accomplished jazz musician, composer, recording artist, and teacher that cut his teeth in the jazz clubs of Chicago. As technology changes and advances, so will Ravenswave. Ravenswave is a tribute to the marriage of music and technology. Bob Ravenscroft is an impassioned pioneer in the search for ways to relate our intuitive responses to uncompromising music with the profound thoughts and emotions found along the paths to truth. Working alongside audiophile producer John Gibson of Wavebase Productions, Ravenswave’s goal is to capture the sights and sounds of jazz with the fine detail of today’s best recording technology and mastering CD manufacturing expertise.Īmong the label’s recent releases are the two-disc, triple hybrid SACD Three Alone and the nationally acclaimed The Bob Ravenscroft Trio at Taliesin West.Īnother part of the Ravenswave mission is to explore just how vital improvisational music can be to the spiritual experience.
Conceptualized by master improvisational pianist-composer, Bob Ravenscroft, Ravenswave was born in 2002.
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