Bobby Wellins

Bobby Wellins ( born January 24, 1936 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish tenor saxophonist of modern jazz.

Life and work

Bobby Wellins ' mother sang in a dance band; his father was a saxophonist. At twelve, he began with the saxophone. After leaving school he worked in Uxbridge in London's jazz scene, as in Dorchester at Tommy Wittle. He eventually became known in the late 1950s through its membership in the quintet of Buddy Featherstonhaugh, the Kenny Wheeler belonged. He played in this time in Tony Crombies Jazz Inc., where he met the pianist Stan Tracey, whose quartet he belonged to the early 1960s. He is among other things heard on the albums With Love from Jazz and Under Milk Wood ( 1965). According to the judgment of the authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton, he gained his reputation in the British hard bop scene with his solo in " Starless and Bible Black".

The mid-1970s he led his own quartet or a quintet, the Don Weller belonged. Due to illness he had to pause more often in those years. In 1978 he participated in Jimmy Kneppers album Special Relationship; in the 1980s he had a band with Jim Mullen. 1989 originated with Kenny Wheeler 's comeback album Birds of Brazil; in the 1990s played in his quartet of pianist John Critchinson, bassist Andy and drummer Martin Drew Cleyndert. In particular, with its satin Album ( 1996) - a tribute to Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin tragic late work - he earned a reputation as a superb ballad player. In 2000 he played with Liam Noble, a singer Tony Bennett album dedicated to one ( The Best is Yet to Come ); 2011 was followed by the album Smoke & Mirrors and with pianist Kate Williams.

In the movie Grand Prix (1966 ) with Paul Newman and James Garner, he has a cameo appearance in a jazz quartet of pianist Harry South.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Birds of Brazil ( Sungai, 1989 Pete Jacobsen )
• Nomad ( Hot House, 1992) with Jonathan Gee
• Do not Worry ' bout me ( cadilliac, 1996) with Alec Dankworth
• The Satin Album ( Jazzizit, 1996)
• The Best is Yet to Come ( Jazzizit, 2000)
• Fun ( Jazzizit, 2004)