Elton Dean Memorial Concerts - London/Paris

Relayed from Cuneiform Press Release:


Dear music friends;

Tributes are being held worldwide in memory of British free jazz saxophonist
Elton Dean.

LONDON
We are sending a copy of the press release announcing the May 9th Memorial
Concert to Elton Dean, at London's 100 Club.  (Please SCROLL DOWN to read the
press release, which was sent to us by the event organizers.)

For directions to the 100 Club in London, see
http://www.the100club.co.uk/whatson.asp?month=5&year=2006

PARIS
On May 27th, there will be a Memorial Concert to Elton Dean at Les Tritonales
in Paris (Le Lilas). For more information on that event, please see:
http://www.citizenjazz.com/article3457578.html?var_recherche=elton+dean

LINKS TO OBITS ETC.
For a copy of the notice that Cuneiform sent out after Elton's death, which
contains links to various of Elton obits, please scroll below the May 9th
Concert press release.

If you know of other recent articles/ tributes/ etc on Elton, please let us
know.

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PRESS RELEASE


On February 8 th 2006,  sadly, the jazz world lost one of the major
contributors to the development of jazz and improvised music here in England and Europe
during the mid sixties to a week before his death.

Working with many different aspects of this creative community from Keith
Tippetts’ small groups, they met at the Barry Summer school with Nick Evans and
Mark Charig, Centipede, Ark and Tapestries, to Robert Wyatt and Hugh Hopper in
the Soft Machine, Brotherhood of Breath, to his own groups quartets, quintet,
the famous Ninesense, and many more. He was a truly individual, professional,
and very creative saxophonist, who will be sorely missed.

On May 9th at the 100 Club many of the muscians who were his friends and
fellow travellors along this road will play in tribute to him. This is only a
selection others not included will be organising further events in his memory.

ELTON DEAN’S MEMORIAL CONCERT

playing in various combinations there will be contributions from the
Dartington Improvisors Trio, Soft Machine, Dreamtime, duos, Trios, Quintets,
Sextets featuring:
HARRY BECKETT, ROBERTO BELLATALLA, MARK CHARIG, LOL COXHILL,
GARY CURSON, PAUL DUNMALL, JIM DVORAK, JOHN EDWRDS, JOHN ETHERIDGE, NICK
EVANS, JOE GALLIVAN, MARK HEWINS, HUGH HOPPER, JIM LE BAIGUE, ALEX MAGUIRE, TONY
MARSH, JOHN MARSHALL, MARCIO MATTOS, LOUIS MOHOLO, MAGGIE NICOLS, EVAN PARKER,
PAUL RUTHERFORD, MARK SANDERS, LARRY STABBINS, KEITH & JULIE TIPPETTS, THEO
TRAVIS.

DOORS WILL BE OPEN AT 19.30 AND THE MUSIC WILL START
AT 20.00 [8PM]
ADMISSION : £12.00 AND £10.00 FOR CONCESSIONS

Tickets can be reserved and will be held until 21.00 [9pm] reservations by
e-mail : [email protected]  or telephone Tuesday-Friday 0207.619.9111.

Any further informtion please contact Hazel Miller.
Thank you for your support in promoting this very special concert.

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from Cuneiform' emailing:

Saxophonist Elton Dean 10/28/1945-2/8/2006
ELTON DEAN

The British saxophonist Elton Dean died early last week. He was an absolutely
brilliant musician, a good-hearted man, and a friend to all of us at
Cuneiform.  Elton had worked with Cuneiform for years, releasing various solo and
group recordings with us in addition to the dozens of lps and CDs he released on
the British label Hux and other indie labels, including Ogun, Slam, Voiceprint
and MoonJune. Steve Feigenbaum and I last saw Elton perform in Paris in 2004 -
his playing there, as part of Soft Bounds, was nothing short of amazing - he
had continued to grow better with age, and despite poor health.  It was as
though his music was triumphing over his body. Following the show, all of us had
a welcome,  late-night chat session in Le Triton's green room. While we'll
miss the music that infused Elton's soul and served as his driving force,  we
will miss Elton's humanity - his very human and humane good-heartedness - the
most.

I've enclosed links to some English and French-language obituaries:

*Elton Dean: Gifted and versatile jazz musician at the forefront of
innovation*
Obituary written by John Fordham
Friday Feb 10, 2006
*The Guardian* [London]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/obituary/0,,1706856,00.html

*Elton Dean (1945-2006)*
Obituary by Aymeric Leroy
in *CitizenJazz.com* [Paris]
http://www.citizenjazz.com/article3457469.html

*Former Soft Machine Saxophonist Elton Dean Dies*
Obituary in *All About Jazz*, 2/8/2006
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=8788

"Soft Machine's Elton Dean Dies*
*Intuitive Music: Alternative and Experimental Music*
http://www.intuitivemusic.com/content/view/1821/27/

*Elton Dean:  Jazz-fusion saxophonist with Soft Machine -
from whom Elton John took his first name*
Obituary in *The Independent* [London] (Online edition)
Feb 13, 2006:
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article345110.ece
(accessible to subscribers, or by minimal charge to non-subscribers)