Bill Wells

Jazz bassist, pianist, and composer Expenses Wells came up through the Scottish jazz picture of the past due ’80s and early ’90s, though his varied music collaborations have got led him into numerous styles well beyond jazz. A indigenous of Falkirk, Scotland, he obtained identification leading his eclectic big music group the Costs Wells Octet in the middle-’90s, acquiring as much impact from Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach as from jazz performers like Count number Basie and Carla Bley. Wells continues to be quoted as determining more using the rock and roll and indie moments than with jazz, and his experimentations possess led to tasks with performers like Belle and Sebastian’s Isobel Campbell, Jens Lekman, Kevin Ayers, and Arab Strap vocalist Aiden Moffat, with whom he documented 2011’s Everything’s GROWING OLDER, winner from the inaugural Scottish Record of the entire year Prize. In 2007, Wells produced the amusingly called Country wide Jazz Trio of Scotland, an eclectic ensemble using a spinning cast that’s seldom a trio and pushes the limitations of what could possibly be regarded jazz. His réamounté also contains the rock and roll group Phantom Engineer, which he produced with associates of BMX Bandits and Telstar Ponies and a 2009 cooperation with Japanese experimental group Maher Shalal Hash Baz. A fee in the arts organization Innovative Scotland resulted in his 2015 Nursery Rhymes task, which he and Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake documented in NEW YORK. The task included efforts from a big cast of visitor performers like Syd Straw, Yo La Tengo, Karen Mantler, Bridget St. John, and Deerhoof’s Satomi Matsuzaki and Greg Saunier.