BOBBY WELLINS
Hard Bop / Post Bop / Third Stream / Soul Jazz • United Kingdom
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Scottish jazz saxophonist who played on Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood. Born: Glasgow, 24 January, 1936. Died: 27 October, 2016, aged 80.
Bobby Wellins was a tenor saxophonist raised in Glasgow whose career spanned over half a century, from beginnings as a be-bop loving student of music in the Gorbals to a performing career which carried on into the 21st century and saw him play alongside some of the greats of British jazz. None of these relationships was greater, however, than the one he enjoyed with the London-born pianist and composer Stan Tracey; both players’ reputations rested upon their work on Tracy’s 1965 recorded suite Under Milk Wood, which is often cited as the greatest-ever British jazz album.
That Wellins was a survivor in the industry is emphasised through the fact that his career was interrupted by a decade-long period of addiction and depression brought on, he later said, by his insecurity
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