The Alan Bown Set later known as The Alan Bown! or just Alan Bown, were a British band of the 1960s and 1970s whose music evolved from jazz and blues through soul and rhythm and blues and ended up as psychedelia and progressive rock.Alan Bown joined Jonesy, and then became an A&R manager with CBS Records.

Bown then reformed his band, initially with three former members of The John Barry Seven:- Jeff Bannister (lead vocals and keyboards), Dave Green (sax, clarinet and flute) and Stan Haldane (bass) together with Pete Burgess (guitar) and Vic Sweeney (drums).

Bown reformed the band as “The Alan Bown!” a psychedelic band on Verve Records, They finally released their first full album Outward Bown in 1967 and appeared on Top Gear. The album included a cover of Dylan's All Along the Watchtower, a stage version which "directly inspired Hendrix's arrangement of the song". In 1968 they performed "We Can Help You" on Top of the Pops^ this was at No 26 in the UK chart but the pressing plant went on strike, so they could not capitalise on the exposure.

In 1969 they changed to Deram Records where they had a minor hit with "Still as Stone". As with many bands at the time, they recorded cover versions for the BBC, appearing on the ’’Jimmy Young Show’’, "The David Symonds Show" and others, as restricted needle time required "live" performances between the records.[2] Their next album The Alan Bown![6] had been recorded when Roden left the band. Robert Palmer joined and the vocals were re-recorded before the album's UK release, although the Roden vocals were issued in the US. The band appeared on BBC TVs Disco Two (which became The Old Grey Whistle Test).

In 1970 the band changed labels yet again, this time to Island Records, who released the album Listen. Palmer left and Gordon Neville joined, and the single "Pyramid" was released before Andy Brown replaced Haldane and Mel Collins joined on sax. They recorded another album Stretching Out [8] and re-appeared on Disco Two. Bannister left, but was not replaced, then Dougie Thomson replaced Brown and Derek Griffiths, formerly with The Artwoods, replaced Catchpole. This line up continued until February 1972. Bown then formed a new band with Dave Lawson (keyboards) Tony Dangerfield (Bass) Frank White (guitar) and Alan Coulter (drums), but after a major tour, Bown finally disbanded the group in July 1972.

Alan Bown joined Jonesy

Jeff Bannister joined Jess Roden’s band Bronco and then joined A Band Called O

Mel Collins worked with King Crimson, Alexis Korner and numerous other bands.

John Helliwell later played with Supertramp

Gordon Neville later joined Elton John's band, and worked with Rick Wakeman

Robert Palmer joined Dada, shortly before they evolved into Vinegar Joe

Vic Sweeney worked with Kevin Coyne

Dougie Thomson joined Supertramp