Roy Babbington

Roy Babbington

Roy Babbington (born 8 July 1940 in Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England) is a rock and jazz bassist. He became well known for being a member of the Canterbury scene progressive rock/jazz fusion band Soft Machine.

Biography

Babbington started his musical career in 1958, playing double bass in local jazz bands. After moving to London in 1969, he joined the band Delivery, one of the side roots of the Canterbury scene with Phil Miller, Pip Pyle and Lol Coxhill. Also, he began to work as a session musician with jazz/fusion musicians like Michael Gibbs and The Keith Tippett Group (including Elton Dean), appearing on their albums "You Are Here... I Am There" (1969) and "Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening" (1970) as well as in Tippett's big band project Centipede (1971) and on Dean's album "Just Us". When Delivery disbanded in 1971 after an album with Carol Grimes titled "Fools Meeting", Babbington joined Nucleus.

He contributed to albums by Alexis Korner, folk singer Harvey Andrews, Mike d'Abo, Chris Spedding and was a part time member of the bands "Schunge", Solid Gold Cadillac (with Mike Westbrook and Spedding among others) and Ovary Lodge.

With Soft Machine

Having already contributed additional double bass parts to electric bassist Hugh Hopper's work on the Soft Machine albums "Fourth" (1971) and "Five" (1972), he finally replaced Hopper fully in the band with the release of their album "Seven". He used a six-string Fender VI throughout his tenure with the band. In addition to "Seven", he can be heard on "BBC Radio 1971-1974", "Bundles", "Softs" and "Rubber Riff". Babbington's funk- and rock-oriented electric bass playing went along well with Karl Jenkins' and John Marshall's fusion concept of Soft Machine at the time. In 2008, he played with Soft Machine LegacyFact|date=September 2008.

After 1976

In 1979, Babbington appeared on the album "Welcome to the Cruise" by Judie Tzuke. In the 1980s and 90s, he returned to his roots, double bass and pure jazz. He also worked with Barbara Thompson, Elvis Costello, Carol Grimes, Mose Allison and the BBC Big Band.

Offspring

Has a son by the name of Nick Babbington

External links

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* [http://calyx.club.fr/mus/babbington_roy.html Calyx: The Canterbury Website]
* [http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Roy%20Babbington:1927039266:page=discography:b=1;_ylt=AgOBarDN4wuHKdzieRPLK3VUvQcF;_ylu=X3oDMTBubDlqbmRkBF9zAzg0MzkzMzAwBHNlYwNhcnRwcm9k?#albumlist Discography at yahoo.com]


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