Elton Dean (28 October 1945 – 8 February 2006) was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello (a variant of the soprano saxophone)...
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many line-up changes, with musicians such as Andy Summers, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, John Marshall, Karl Jenkins, Roy Babbington and Allan Holdsworth being...
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Dwight used the names of fellow band members Elton Dean and John Baldry to create his new solo stage name of Elton John. Brown went on to form country rock...
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Sir Elton Hercules John CH CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist. Acclaimed by critics and musicians...
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Dean, Gowen and Pyle in 1978 was released as Al Dente in 2008. Over ten years after the last Soft Machine spin-off band, Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean formed...
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keyboardist Mike Ratledge, drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt, saxophonist Elton Dean, and bass guitarist Hugh Hopper. Third marks a shift in the group's sound...
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of cooperative bands alongside former Soft Machine saxophonist Elton Dean: Hopper/Dean/Tippett/Gallivan (with pianist Keith Tippett and drummer Joe Gallivan)...
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he attended the Barry Summer School Jazz Course in Wales, where he met Elton Dean, Nick Evans, and Marc Charig and with them started a band. The Keith Tippett...
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Wyatt, H. Hopper Brian Hopper 1970 Third Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Elton Dean Lyn Dobson, Nick Evans, Jimmy Hastings, Rab Spall 1971 Fourth Evans, Hastings...
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playing double bass on all the tracks on side two. Soft Machine Side one: Elton Dean – alto saxophone, saxello; Fender Rhodes electric piano (2) Mike Ratledge...
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