Bobby Wellins
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Robert Coull "Bobby" Wellins (born on 24 January 1936) is a Scottish tenor saxophonist best known for his collaboration with Stan Tracey on the seminal 1965 British jazz album Under Milk Wood.[1][2]
Born in Glasgow, Wellins studied alto saxophone and harmony with his father Max, and also played piano and clarinet during his early years. He subsequently joined the RAF as a musician playing tenor sax. [3] After demobilisation he played with a few Scottish bands before moving to London in the mid-1950s.[4] He was a member of Buddy Featherstonhaugh's quintet between 1956 and 1957,[3] together with Kenny Wheeler. Around that time Wellins also joined drummer Tony Crombie's Jazz Inc., where he first met up with pianist Tracey,[3] going on to join Tracey's quartet in the early 1960s. He also worked with Lionel Grigson in 1976.[5]
In the mid-seventies he led his own quartet with the great pianist Pete Jacobsen, bassist Adrian Kendon (replaced later by Ken Baldock, and then Andrew Cleyndert in the eighties) and drummer Spike Wells. In the 1980s he formed a quintet with fellow sax player Don Weller and then with guitarist Jim Mullen; the former group included Errol Clarke on piano, Cleyndert on bass and Spike Wells on drums, while the latter featured Pete Jacobsen on piano. Since then Wellins has led various quartets, most notably with Liam Noble on piano, Simon Thorpe on bass and Dave Wickens on drums. Latterly he has renewed his association with drummer Spike Wells with a quartet featuring Mark Edwards on piano and Andrew Cleyndert on bass.
[edit] References
- ^ Fordham, John (2001-12-20). "Stan Tracey". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2001/dec/20/jazz. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
- ^ Fordham, John (2006-04-14). "Bobby Wellins, When the Sun Comes Out". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/apr/14/jazz.shopping3. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
- ^ a b c "Bobby Wellins". All About Jazz. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=11263.
- ^ Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (2007). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press US. p. 684. ISBN 019532000X.
- ^ John Chilton, Who's Who of British Jazz, p.382.
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