Colin was born in London during WW2 and was moved to Wells, Somerset in 1950. Despite opposition, he learned to play a bit of boogie & jazz. Colin played locally and in Bristol while still at school and went to Durham University to study maths (if you could do sciences or maths in those days, you did, "to help the cold war weapons race" apparently). He spent most of his time at university playing piano & keyboards with college jazz and rock bands.

Colin moved to London to seek "fame & fortune" - (ha!) and eventually found work scrubbing floors, operating office machines and playing with Bill Nile's Delta Jazz Band, Monty Sunshine, John Benson and playing on many rock sessions with the likes of David Bowie, Cat Stevens, Uriah Heep, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Yardbirds and many others (mostly too embarrassing to mention - but they paid well!).

He became disillusioned with music scene and taught maths to engineers at Twickenham from 1970 & played local semi-pro gigs.

Colin rejoined the music business in 1977, (a long story!) and joined Acker Bilk in September of that year.  Since then, (while playing with Acker throughout), found time to play with Wild Bill Davison, George Masso, Billy Butterfield, Kenny Davern, Ken Peplowski, Bob Barnard etc. and most British mainstreamers & also with Ray Warleigh, Lol Coxhill, Jim Mullen, Henry Lowther, John Stevens, Dick Morrissey, etc. , etc.

 

Colin is still playing with Acker & very much enjoys playing with Pete's band, whose energy & commitment will keep this music alive.

He has produced a CD for the great Danish bass player Hugo Rasmussen, called "Feeling Fine", featuring John Crocker, Paul Sealey, Richie Bryant and Colin Wood.
This can only be obtained at Pete & Acker's gigs or from Colin.