Former Soft Machine saxophone player Elton Dean dies

[gyrofrog.com]

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=8788

[Ruediger Kramer]

when i was very young and these days again i listend to a lot of Soft Machine and Elton Dean -

it makes me sad, that he isn't anymore

[cleger]

I don't know him from soft machine I only ever heard him with Dennis Gonzalez on his catechism CD. I understand that he had a lot of other jazz recordings to his credit.

RIP Elton

[Bernards20040]

RIP Elton Dean

Did you Know Elton John Made up his name from Elton Dean and Long John Baldry
He was a Fan

[gyrofrog.com]

. . . I only ever heard him with Dennis Gonzalez on his catechism CD.

I've heard some Dennis Gonzalez recordings but I didn't know about that one.

[cleger]

I've heard some Dennis Gonzalez recordings but I didn't know about that one.


You can download it and many other of his recordings from Dennis' site for free here (http://www.dennisgonzalez.com/htmlfiles/real_of_music/pages/mp3s.html). Check some of those out, he's played with some real masters of the saxophone on some of these recordings.

[Ruediger Kramer]

You can download it and many other of his recordings from Dennis' site for free here (http://www.dennisgonzalez.com/htmlfiles/real_of_music/pages/mp3s.html). Check some of those out, he's played with some real masters of the saxophone on some of these recordings.

thanks you for that great recommandation - i hear that stuff right now (8 cds)

[Tim Price]

Music will never see a player like this again.
HE WAS AN ORIGINAL.


I followed him right to the end, listening to his ECM stuff 2decades
ago, listening to his OGON records yesterday as a homage.Eltons music was always challenging and often dissonant but never any less than fascinating.

It took an artist to pull off this kind of bold playing, and Elton Dean
lived up to that role from the start to the end. There was always
enough color and humor here to keep the projects from pretension and
theres little chance of the way he played _ever_ wearing out its
welcome. TIMELESS, and inspirational.


His playing, to me, always had a cohesion and response. He was lucky
to be associated with musicians who shared the same spiritual vision.His lesson to me from hearing him was how to balance ones individual
talents and aesthetic values into a musical statement

[JLeurck]

RIP Elton Dean

Did you Know Elton John Made up his name from Elton Dean and Long John Baldry
He was a Fan

Actually, Reg Dwight (a.k.a. Elton John) played keyboards and Elton Dean played tenor in a band called Bluesology, whom blues singer Long John Baldry hired as a backing band. I understand that "pre-Elton" Reg was hired pretty regularly as a session pianist (?!).....I'm having a bit of a problem picturing Elton John and Elton Dean trading choruses, but aparently it has occurred in the past. I've heard other people mention that he's a much better musician than his catalog of pop hits indicates. Hmmmmm.....