Roy Babbington
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Roy Babbington (born July 8, 1940 in Kempston , Bedfordshire ) is an English bass player.
General
Babbington became known for his membership in the art rock and jazz rock group Soft Machine . He started out as a double bass player in local jazz groups. With Alexis Korner , he expanded his musical background in the field of blues and rhythm 'n' blues and now also increasingly used the electric bass . Here the legendary Fender VI bass became his most important instrument. On Korner's recommendation, he joined the band Delivery , which was one of the germ cells of the Canterbury scene with Phil and Steve Miller , Pip Pyle and Lol Coxhill . He also began working with jazz / fusion musicians such as Michael Gibbs and Keith Tippett's Sextet , on whose albums he appeared as well as in Tippett's large-format project Centipede (1971) and on Elton Dean's album Just Us. When Delivery broke up in 1971 after the release of a single album ( Fools Meeting with Carol Grimes ), Babbington joined the jazz rock band Nucleus .
He appeared on albums by Mike d'Abo , Chris Spedding and the folk singer Harvey Andrews and was temporarily part of the groups "Schunge", "Solid Gold Cadillac" (by Mike Westbrook with Spedding and Phil Minton ) and "Ovary Lodge" with Keith and Julie Tippetts .
Roy Babbington at Soft Machine
Due to his jazz background, he was ideally suited to participate in the soft machine LPs Fourth and Fifth . With his double bass in the swing passages of Teeth he created an attractive contrast to Hugh Hopper's electric bass , which he finally replaced from the album Seven (1973). Babbington's clear emphasis on funk and rock on the electric bass complemented each other perfectly with the jazz-rock ambitions of Karl Jenkins and the drum work of John Marshall . He also impressively demonstrates the tonal possibilities of the bowed double bass in pieces such as Down The Road and As If .
Since 1976
Together with Charles Austin and Joe Gallivan , he recorded the album Home from Home ( Ogun 1979) in 1977 . In 1979 he appeared on the album Welcome To The Cruise by Judie Tzuke . In the eighties and nineties Babbington returned to his origins - to the double bass and pure jazz. Roy Babbington can also be heard on recordings by Barbara Thompson , Carol Grimes , Elvis Costello and the BBC Big Band . He also worked in 2001 in the Trio of Mose Allison .
In 2008 he played with Soft Machine Legacy and replaced Hugh Hopper as the band's electric bassist after his death.
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- ↑ Biography on Calyx
- ^ Roy Babbington at www.jazzwisemagazine.com
- ↑ Soft Machine Legacy ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on John Etheridge's homepage. As of January 2010
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| SURNAME | Babbington, Roy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English bass player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kempston , Bedfordshire |