Results for "Spike Wells"

Spike Wells

Born: January 16, 1946

Love Supreme Festival 2026: A Personal Perspective

by Andy Crowther
July 14, 2026

The South Downs in East Sussex is a beautiful part of the UK. Glynde Place, the location for the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, is in the sweet spot between the bustling seaside city of Brighton and Hove, and the dramatic ridges of the Downs. Rolling countryside, flint-stone buildings, and Glyndebourne House--famous around the world for its ...

Homage To Caledonia

By Bobby Wellins

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2024
Track listing: What Is The truth?; Conundrums; Aura Best; Piano solo; Introduction / Gathering; March; Battle; Aftermath; Dizzy's Blues (including St. Thomas).

What Was Happening

By Bobby Wellins

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD1: Jubiliation: Jubilation; Nomad; What's Happening; Spider. Bonus tracks: Softly As In A Morning Sunrise; You Don't Know What Love Is; Billie's Bounce. CD2: Dreams Are Free: Dreams Are Free; Love Dance; Aura; Conundrum; What Is The Truth; Ba-loos. Bonus tracks: Rhythm-a-ning; In A Sentimental Mood; Now's The Time; My Melancholy Baby.

The Hold Up

By Eddie Myer

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: High Noon; The Hold Up; I Gotta Grape Drink; The Starcrossed Lovers; Along Came John; Hip Strut; Our Man Higgins; Bastard Gentlemen; Bright Mississippi; Hard Times Come Again No More; Straight Ahead; I'm An Old Qowhand.

Bobby Wellins Sextet: Homage To Caledonia

by Jack Kenny
October 2, 2024

Bobby Wellins said about the composition of “The Culloden Moor Suite:" “It was something that came to me after reading John Prebble's book about the Battle of Culloden and the way he described events leading up to it and the dreadful aftermath... I wanted to capture, not just the terrible sadness that must have resulted from ...

Bobby Wellins Quartet: What Was Happening

by Chris May
March 19, 2024

In 1965 tenor saxophonist Bobby Wellins made an indelible mark on jazz history with his contribution to pianist Stan Tracey's Jazz Suite Inspired By Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (Columbia). The exquisite “Starless And Bible Black" is the most frequently cited track (check the YouTube below) and is indicative of the album's overall beauty. For a ...

The Qow Trio: The Hold Up

by Neil Duggan
January 22, 2024

Anyone whose musical taste yearns for the type of '50s and '60s sounds of artists such as Sonny Rollins, Jackie Mclean and Lee Morgan, may find The Hold Up is just what they seek. This is the second album from the Qow Trio (pronounced Cow). Taking their name from a composition on Dewey Redman's album, Coincide ...

The Complete Hopbine '69

By Tubby Hayes

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD1: For Members Only; Off The Wagon; Where Am I Going?; What Is This Thing Called Love. CD2: Mainly For The Don; For Heaven’s Sake; Vierd Blues; Walkin’.

Tubby Hayes Quartet: The Complete Hopbine '69

by Chris May
January 30, 2022

Of all the many talented jazz musicians who blazed trails in Britain in the late 1950s and 1960s, tenor saxophonist Tubby Hayes in 2022 stands among the tallest. Hayes, too, is one of a handful of British musicians of his generation who have been practically deified by some of the emergent young players who are currently ...