RIP Bobby Wellins (1936-2016)
Friday, October 28, 2016
Bobby Wellins' timeless reading of 'Starless and Bible Black' from Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood jazz suite [1965] is often cited as the single most memorable British jazz solo, possessing the kind of ethereal beauty that prompted his fellow saxophonist Dave Gelly to declare that Bobby possessed "one of the most beautiful tenor saxophone sounds in the history of the instrument.
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