Laurence Cottle is a Welsh bass guitarist and composer. 　　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.