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Laurence Cottle
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Cottle in 2017
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Born
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1961-12-16
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16 December 1961
(age 62)
Swansea
,
Wales
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Genres
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Occupation(s)
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Instrument(s)
| Bass
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Years active
| 1980?present
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Website
| laurencecottle
.com
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Musical artist
Laurence Cottle
(born 16 December 1961) is a Welsh bass guitarist and composer.
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His solo recordings have been mostly in
jazz
and
jazz fusion
. He was a member of the fusion quartet The Fents and appeared on their second album,
The Other Side
, released on the
Passport Jazz
label in 1987.
He played with
The Alan Parsons Project
on
Gaudi
, their final album for
Arista
, and on
Freudiana
, Parsons's final collaboration with
Eric Woolfson
. He is the brother of Richard Cottle (also a musician), playing with him during his time with The Alan Parsons Project.
Shortly after, he was hired by British
heavy metal
band
Black Sabbath
to play bass on the studio sessions that would become their 1989 album
Headless Cross
. Cottle wrote and played all the bass parts for the album and appeared on the music video for the song "Headless Cross" but didn't perform live or tour with the band.
In the 1990s, he produced three albums for guitarist
Jim Mullen
and recorded with British jazz musicians
Mornington Lockett
,
Tim Garland
,
Django Bates
,
Gerard Presencer
, and John Graham. In 2000, Cottle appeared on the album
Iommi
from
Tony Iommi
. From 2003 to 2006, he was a member of
Bill Bruford
's
Earthworks
. In 2009, he produced albums for
Claire Martin
, Gareth Williams, and
Mark Nightingale
. He leads his own Laurence Cottle Big Band playing a variety of standards and his own material.
Cottle has also played on
Eric Clapton
's 1986 album
August
as well as
Van Morrison
's
Keep Me Singing
and
Roll with the Punches
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