JAZZ LIVES: SPIKE WELLS
Veteran Jazz Man on Tubby Hayes, Joe Harriot, Bobby Wellins, Law, God etc.
The author and the musician on a chilly Brighton winter day.
Spike Wells is one of the UK’s foremost jazz drummers and has been so for almost 60 years. He’s currently part of QOW Trio, a saxophone-double bass-drums trio who continue to explore the territory Sonny Rollins first mapped out on Way Out West. I’ve yet to see QOW Trio perform but both their a…