Bill Wells
Bill Wells | |
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![]() Bill Wells with Aby Vulliamy, National Jazz Trio of Scotland, Stirling, May 2008 | |
Background information | |
Born | c. 1963 (age 60–61) Falkirk,Scotland |
Genres | Jazz |
Instrument(s) | Bass,Guitar,Piano |
Labels | Geographic Music,Double Six,Domino Records[1] |
Bill Wells(born c. 1963)[1]is aScottishbassist,pianist, guitarist and composer.
Biography
[edit]Wells is completely self-taught, and began performing in clubs in Scotland in the late 1980s.[1]He began arranging his own work and initially offered these to Bobby Wishart, but when Wishart declined the offer, Wells formed his own Bill Wells Octet, which has included Lindsay Cooper, Alastair Morrow, Robert Henderson, John Longbotham, Phil and Tom Bancroft.[1]Wells' style of experimental jazz takes influences fromBrian Wilson,Burt Bacharach,Gil Evans,andCharles Mingus.[1]
Wells has collaborated with several prominent Scottish independent rock and pop musicians, including with David Keenan ofTelstar Poniesand John Hogarty ofBMX Banditsin the group Phantom Engineer, and withStevie JacksonandIsobel CampbellofBelle & Sebastianin live performances and also in the studio; Wells recorded theGhost of Yesterdayalbum with Campbell, and Jackson played on Wells'Incorrect Practicealbum.[1][2]
During 2006 he received aScottish Arts Council'Tune Up' commission for a tour of Scotland.[3]
Discography
[edit]Stefan Schneider
- Pianotapes
Solo
- The Viaduct Tuba Trio Plays The Music of Bill Wells
- Lemondale
With Phantom Engineer
- Phantom Engineer(1996)
With Future Pilot A.K.A.
- The Bill Wells Octet Vs. Future Pilot A.K.A.(1999)Domino
The Bill Wells Trio
- Incorrect Practice(2000)[2]Geographic
- Also in White(2002) Geographic
With Isobel Campbell
- Ghost of Yesterday(2002)Creeping Bent
With Maher Shalal Hash Baz
- Osaka Bridge
- GOK(2009) Geographic
With Tape
- Fugue(2010)Thrill Jockey
With Aidan Moffat
- Everything's Getting Older(2011)
- The Most Important Place in the World(2015)
As Bill Wells & Friends
- Nursery Rhymes(2015)[4]
EP
- Dilf_77 would like to chat
- Cruel summer
References
[edit]- ^abcdeStrong, Martin C. (2003) "Bill Wells", inThe Great Indie Discography,Canongate,ISBN1-84195-335-0
- ^abJansen, Skip."Incorrect Practice: Review".AllMusic.Retrieved18 April2010.
- ^"Bill Wells: Biography".Scottish Arts Council. Archived fromthe originalon 24 September 2009.Retrieved18 April2010.
- ^"'Nursery Rhymes' released on the Karaoke Kalk label ".Retrieved30 November2015.
External links
[edit]- Scottish Arts Council article on Bill Wells
- Biography at Falkirk Music Scene
- Bill Wells at Domino Records
- Article on Scotland On Sunday 23.06.96 write by Stephen Pastel
- Fugue by Tape & Bill Wells at Inmune Recordings
- Video Kama Aina & Bill Wells | Glasgow Sky
- Video Bill Wells & Lorna Gilfedder & Bradien
- 1960s births
- Living people
- People from Falkirk
- Scottish jazz composers
- British jazz bandleaders
- Scottish jazz pianists
- Scottish jazz double-bassists
- British jazz double-bassists
- British male double-bassists
- 21st-century British pianists
- 21st-century double-bassists
- British male jazz composers
- 21st-century British male musicians
- British male jazz pianists
- Scottish Album of the Year Award winners