Elton Dean lives forever, rests in peace
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Topic: Elton Dean lives forever, rests in peace
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Subject: Elton Dean lives forever, rests in peace
Date Posted: February 08 2006 at 22:44
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Taken from the All About Jazz pages - British jazz saxophonist Elton Dean died on the evening of February 7th, 2006, in a London hospital. For the last year in particular he had been suffering from heart and liver related health problems. He was 60. Dean first gained acclaim as a member of the Keith Tippett Group, led by the English pianist and featuring the horn section of Dean, Marc Charig and Nick Evans, in 1969. Later that year, Dean, Charig and Evans were hired by Soft Machine to augment their core trio. After touring as a septet, the band was trimmed down to a quintet, then a quartet. This resulted in what many consider the “classic” Soft Machine line-up of Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean, which recorded Third (1970) and Fourth (1971) for CBS. Dean left Soft Machine after 1972's Fifth to devote his time to his own group, Just Us, and various jazz-oriented line-ups, many of them featuring Tippett. Over the years however, he remained associated with the Soft Machine family (also known as the “Canterbury scene”), often in the company of bassist Hugh Hopper, while leading his own acoustic jazz quartets and quintets. In the past few years Dean had again been involved in a variety of Soft Machine-derived line-ups : SoftWorks with Hugh Hopper, Allan Holdsworth and John Marshall; Soft Machine Legacy with Etheridge replacing Holdsworth; Soft Bounds, with Hopper and French jazzers Sophia Domancich and Simon Goubert; and the French-based PolySoft tribute project, again featuring Hopper. Soft Machine Legacy recorded its debut album in September, and the band were looking forward to supporting it with a series of live performances; a live DVD, recorded in Paris last December, is also set for release later this year. |
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: February 09 2006 at 01:54
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RIP
------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 09 2006 at 04:01
 ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: February 09 2006 at 05:16
Have a nice trip Elton!
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 09 2006 at 05:33
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Very sad news indeed! He did some nice work with Soft Machine! RIP!
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: February 09 2006 at 08:51
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I saw him in december in Paris,I would never have imagined that he would died so quickly, he must have played music until the end, what can an artist ask for more ....RIP Elton ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: RoyalJelly
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 09:25
| One of THE great woodwind players in rock, period...I love his playing on every single album he's on that I know of...he'll be sadly missed, as younger players in rock who have that level of imagination seem to be lacking. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 17:52
I second that. -------------  
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Bj-1 wrote:Posted By: USAGirl
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 05:32
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Here a picture of Elton Dean jamming with Gong in Paris, October 1996. Left to right: Steffe Sharpstring, Didier Malherbe, Elton Dean, Mike Howlett, Gilli Smyth and Daevid Allen; also playing, but not in the pic: Tim Blake and Pip Pyle.  ------------- Peace on Earth |