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Laurence Cottle
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Born in Swansea, into a musical and theatrical family, Cottle was one of three brothers who helped their father (a pianist) in his variety act. “We were all encouraged to play the piano,” he continues, “and also to take up a second musical instrument.” Cottle chose the trombone, while the eldest brother took up the trumpet and the middle brother the clarinet. With little music in school, he remembers going to a private trombone teacher, “where I did all the grades.” At the same time, his father realised that his growing family had the necessary instrumentation to set up a trad jazz band, and so throughout his early teens Cottle toured Wales and the West Midlands, gaining valuable “playing” experience.
“When I was 16,” says Cottle, “my father decided that he wanted to switch the band to being a dance band rather than a ‘trad’ band, and that’s when I first picked up the bass.” His first bass was a Kay that he put through an old Selmer valve amp. “I soon got tired of that,” he comments, “so I bought a Fender Jazz that I fed through an Ancron unit
Snow Blind
Album: Fire Horse
By Sarah L King
Label: ECN Music
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:06
Fire Horse
By Sarah L King
Label: ECN Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Holding On To Love; Devil May Care; Born Yesterday; Mystery Ride; Lush Life; As Though You Were Mine; Stolen Moments; Skyscapes; Black Dog; Show You The Way To Go; Snow Blind; Your Biggest Fan.
More From The Heart
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Down On My Knees; What You Got; After You; Human Kindness; He Said She Said; Scissors Paper Stone; Sleep My Darling; You Never Knew Me; Downtime; Finding Our Feet; Dear Betty; After All.
Ross Lorraine: More From The Heart
by Neil Duggan
A jazz pianist, arranger, theatre music composer and contributor to numerous other projects, Ross Lorraine now seems to have found his true calling as a songwriter. More From The Heart follows on from his songwriting debut on Heart of Mine (self produced, 2022) and follows a similar approach. After penning the lyrics and melody, Lorraine steps ...
Black Dog
Album: Fire Horse
By Sarah L King
Label: ECN Music
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:37
Sarah L King: Fire Horse
by Neil Duggan
Starting her musical path with coaching from Mike King, one of the UK's leading contemporary vocal coaches, Sarah L King (no relation), surfaced as a solo jazz vocalist, releasing an EP of standards and several singles. Her passage was helped by a family heritage consisting of an accomplished jazz trumpeter father and an orchestral conductor grandmother. ...
Doncaster Jazz Alumni: 50 Years
by Neil Duggan
The problem for John Ellis UK as a teacher of brass instruments in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was that there were few resources or equipment available for him to teach his students the skills they needed and take them to the level that would enable them to have a career in music. He wanted to ...
Gavin Harrison: Hatesong / Halo
by Geno Thackara
Folks who know the name Gavin Harrison know that it's synonymous with versatility, which he's shown through a career including more than one of the world's brainier heavy rock bands. Porcupine Tree probably has the lowest jazzy quotient of those, whch makes it perfectly perverse that Harrison and co-collaborator Laurence Cottle re-shaped a whole album's worth ...
Heart of Mine: songs of Ross Lorraine
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Play On; Body Language; The Waiting Game; Pull You Back; Like Love; I'm By Your Side; The Name of the
Game; Heart of Mine; We Will Sing Again; All Our Days; A Silent Cry; They're Playing Our Song.
