Bio

Membre actif de la scène musicale à Ottawa/Gatineau, Linsey Wellman est reconnu comme étant un improvisateur créatif et spontané. Autant qu’étant soliste aux saxophones alto et baryton, il a été membre du groupe Fet.Nat (courte liste du prix Polaris en 2019) et fait partie des groupes Rakestar Arkestra (hommage à Sun Ra), KAY-FAYB et le groupe Kobo Town (gagnants du prix JUNO).  Il a aussi joué dans de nombreux ensembles de musique improvisée et de jazz.

Il est cofondateur de la série Improvisation Musicale Ottawa/Outaouais(IMOO) duquel il a été codirecteur artistique de 2010 à 2023.

An active member of the Ottawa/Gatineau music scene, Linsey Wellman is known as a creative and spontaneous improvisor. In addition to being a soloist on the alto and baritone saxophones, he was a member of 2019 Polaris Prize shortlisted Fet.Nat and is a part of (Sun Ra tribute) Rakestar Arkestra, KAY-fayb and (JUNO award winner) Kobo Town.  He has also played in countless improvised music and jazz ensembles.

He is co-founder of the Improvising Musicians of Ottawa/Outaouais (IMOO) concert series of which he was co-curator from 2010 to 2023.

“Recent publicity suggests that alto saxophonist Linsey Wellman is at the pinnacle of his improvisational powers. That remains to be seen (he may scale greater heights in the future) but even if he never achieves anything better than this album he has ample reason to be proud. This set of seven songs, Manifesto, carves its own niche in the realm of solo alto saxophone performances.” – Raul da Gama (the Whole Note)

“Wellman s’est fait connaître comme membre du Craig Pedersen Quartet et de FetNat mais il brille sur scène peu importe le projet.” –  Alex Pelchat (Voir)

“Unadorned except for his saxophone, Wellman uses repeated and carefully divided lines to vibrate split tones which are somehow both polyphonic and tonic. Using circular breathing he produces equivalent note clusters and glissandi that unroll as if his saxophone is a perpetual motion machine yet subtly vary in pitch, shading and emphasis.” – Ken Waxman (The Whole Note)