The Phil Ware Trio featuring Glaswegian sax legend Bobby Wellins with trumpeter Miguel Gorodi perform at JJ Smyths Jazz & Blues Club, Saturday June 6.
Bobby Wellins was born Robert Coull Wellins in Glasgow on 24 January 1936. His father, of Russian and Polish extraction, was a saxophonist and clarinet player. Bobby's mother was a singer.
Bobby’s father started him on lessons on alto saxophone at 12 years of age, teaching him not only music notation and saxophone technique but introducing him to harmony, teaching him chord progressions at the piano.
Bobby then moved south, taking a three year course at Chichester College of Further Education studying keyboard harmony. He then spent a spell at the RAF School of Music in Uxbridge, studying clarinet.
The Phil Ware Trio are Phil Ware, Piano, Dave Redmond, Bass
and Kevin Brady, Drums.
JJ Smyths storied Jazz & Blues Club can be found, as ever, at 12 Aungier Street, Dublin. Admission; €15, Doors, 8.30pm, music, 9:00pm.
www.jjsmyths.com
