Bill Wells Trio

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D.A.D.E. 00:00 Tools
Singleton 03:20 Tools
Record Collectors 01:13 Tools
Jab The Chemistry Teacher 03:01 Tools
The Last Guitar Lesson 03:34 Tools
New Ascending Staircase 02:21 Tools
Inappropriate Behaviour 01:26 Tools
Euphonia 03:46 Tools
Incorrect Practice 03:59 Tools
Four Cows 02:17 Tools
Bad Plumbing 04:01 Tools
Strangers By The Score 03:33 Tools
Burmac 03:52 Tools
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Retiring Early 00:00 Tools
Thank You for Keeping Me Waiting 04:05 Tools
Family sighs 04:05 Tools
Perfect Window 04:05 Tools
Three line prayer pt 2 04:05 Tools
Waft 04:05 Tools
The Dust of Months 04:05 Tools
A Soldier's Shoulder 04:09 Tools
Presentation Piece No.1 10:59 Tools
Chesterfield Walk 05:04 Tools
Unlawful Entry 04:05 Tools
Intro Juice 01:12 Tools
Pick up Sticks 01:12 Tools
Fay's Sake 02:04 Tools
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Daily Grind* 01:01 Tools
Inadvertently Stolen/ Duly Returned (For Jens Lekman)* 04:31 Tools
Shift Me, I'm Burning* 01:03 Tools
Unlawful Entry (Original Studio Version)* 04:20 Tools
Item Files* 02:57 Tools
Nocturnal Mission* 02:57 Tools
Bat Bait* 02:57 Tools
Double Shadow 02:57 Tools
Presentation Piece 02:57 Tools
Item Files 02:57 Tools
Nocturnal Mission 06:08 Tools
Presentation Piece 2 04:20 Tools
Bat Bait 01:12 Tools
Shift Me, I'm Burning 01:03 Tools
Unlawful Entry (Original Studio Version) 04:20 Tools
Tricycle 06:08 Tools
Daily Grind 01:01 Tools
Presentation piece # 1 01:01 Tools
Here On My Own 01:01 Tools
Lines Low To Frozen Ground 01:01 Tools
Blue Boy 01:01 Tools
The Someone Else 01:01 Tools
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Bill Wells (born Falkirk, c.1963) is a Scottish bassist, pianist, guitarist and composer. He is best known for his group the Bill Wells Octet, since the early 1990s, but he has performed and recorded in a wide range of settings, including collaborations with The Pastels, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Future Pilot A.K.A., Lol Coxhill and recently Isobel Campbell. He has also played on tracks by Kevin Ayers, V Twin and Duglas T. Stewart. Wells is completely self-taught, and began performing in clubs in Scotland in the late 1980s. 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., and his Big Band that entered the BBC Big Band contests of 1992 and 1993 recording one CD at the Society of Musicians in Glasgow. Wells' style of experimental jazz takes influences from Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, Gil Evans, and Charles Mingus. The Octet's releases have primarily been live recordings sold by Wells at gigs. Wells has collaborated with several prominent Scottish independent rock and pop musicians, including with David Keenan of Telstar Ponies and John Hogarty of BMX Bandits in the group Phantom Engineer, and with Stevie Jackson and Isobel Campbell of Belle & Sebastian in live performances and also in the studio; Wells recorded the Ghost of Yesterday album with Campbell, and Jackson played on Wells' Incorrect Practice album. During 2006 he received a Scottish Arts Council 'Tune Up' commission for a tour of Scotland with a group of Japanese musicians Maher Shalal Hash Baz. In 2007 Wells formed, the semi-ironically titled, The National Jazz Trio of Scotland. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.