Bobby Wellins TONITE JLU 13.ii.11

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

During the 2010 London Jazz Festival, Scotsman Bobby performed a live broadcast for the European Broadcast Union with his chosen trio of :
Bobby Wellins - Tenor Sax
Liam Noble - Piano
Dave Wickins - Drums
Dave Whitford - Double Bass
Wellins performs a selection of his originals including "Tartan Rainbow" "Nomad " and Dizzy's Blues.

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....that there is also a track involving the omnipresent frizzle should be noted but it is at the end and you can turn it off ...

[Byas'd Opinion]

And there's a Wellins Jazz Library coming up in April, apparently: http://www.oxfordjazzfestival.com/20....php/schedule/

Liam Noble's always worth hearing as well.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Good stuff - didn't know this was scheduled but suddenly it came on au digital . I suppose at 75 you need to pace yourself but I was left wishing he would stretch out a bit more. One or two tenor choruses then piano, then out, per number. But Noble sounded good, a bit Monkish?

I have Bobby's album "Fun" (2004?) which apart from a few faux "funky" mistaken tracks has some lovely subtle tenor on it. Kind of Warne Marsh. Wellins stretching out with just bass and drums would be good.

IMO.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

I always thought Wellins's 1979 alum "Dreams are Free" to be his best. That rhythm section - Peter Jacobsen, Adrian Kendon, Spike Wells - provided the ideal framework for Bobby's idiosyncratically deceptive laid-backness, understanding when precisely to prod, complement or contradict in the best Milesian accompanying (ca. 1965) manner. Bobby needs a very special kind of reactivity I think to bring out his best - the Noble/Whitford/Wickens got pretty close imv - though the b/c sound was too off-centred to gain a clear view - Noble bridging Tracey and the more Corea-ish approaches of the late Jacobsen in what I believe was a very knowing way.

I often wonder what happened to those free duos that were supposed to have been recorded with Lol Coxhill, sometime in the 70s. That would make a fascinating release!

S-A