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| birth_place = [[Nottingham]], England
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'''Elton Dean''' (28 October 1945 &ndash; 8 February 2006) was an English [[jazz]] musician who performed on alto [[saxophone]], [[saxello]] (a variant of the soprano saxophone) and occasionally [[Electronic keyboard|keyboards]].
'''Elton Dean''' (28 October 1945 &ndash; 8 February 2006) was an English [[jazz]] musician who performed on alto [[saxophone]], [[saxello]] (a variant of the soprano saxophone) and occasionally [[Electronic keyboard|keyboards]]. Part of the [[Canterbury scene]], he featured in [[Soft Machine]], among others.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal|last=Sutcliffe|first=Phil|date=5 March 1991|title=Where are they Now? Soft Machine|journal=Q|volume=55|pages=33}}</ref>


==Life and career==
==Life and career==
Dean was born in [[Nottingham]], England, moving to [[Tooting]], London, soon after his birth.<ref>Bennett 2005, pp. 176-177.</ref> From 1966 to 1967, Dean was a member of the band [[Bluesology]], led by [[Long John Baldry]]. The band's pianist, Reginald Dwight, afterward combined Dean's and Baldry's first names for his own stage name, [[Elton John]].<ref name="indyobit">{{Cite news
Dean was born in [[Nottingham]], England, moving to [[Tooting]], London, soon after his birth.<ref>Bennett 2005, pp. 176-177.</ref> From 1966 to 1967, Dean was a member of the band [[Bluesology]], led by [[Long John Baldry]]. The band's pianist, Reginald Dwight, afterward combined Dean's and Baldry's first names for his own stage name, [[Elton John]].<ref name="indyobit">{{Cite news
| title = ''The Independent'' Obituaries - Elton Dean
| title = ''The Independent'' Obituaries – Elton Dean
| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elton-dean-466450.html
| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elton-dean-466450.html
| date = 13 February 2006
| date = 13 February 2006
| accessdate = 17 December 2010
| access-date = 17 December 2010
| location=London}}</ref> This fact is noted in the 2019 film ''[[Rocketman (film)|Rocketman]]'', a biopic of the life and career of Elton John, where Dean is portrayed by Evan Walsh.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5766922/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t13 IMDB - Evan Walsh]</ref>
| location=London}}</ref> This fact is alluded to in the 2019 film ''[[Rocketman (film)|Rocketman]]'', a biopic of the life and career of Elton John, where Dean is portrayed by Evan Walsh,<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5766922/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t13 IMDB – Evan Walsh]</ref> however the film fictionally cites John Lennon as the inspiration for Elton John's taken surname.


Dean established his reputation as a member of the [[Keith Tippett]] Sextet from 1968 to 1970, and in the band [[Soft Machine]] from 1969 to 1972.<ref name="indyobit"/> Shortly before leaving Soft Machine he started his own group, Just Us.<ref name="guardian">{{Cite news
Dean established his reputation as a member of the [[Keith Tippett]] Sextet from 1968 to 1970, and in the band [[Soft Machine]] from 1969 to 1972.<ref name="indyobit"/> Shortly before leaving Soft Machine he started his own group, Just Us.<ref name="guardian">{{Cite news
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| url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
| url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
| date = 10 February 2006
| date = 10 February 2006
| accessdate = 17 December 2010
| access-date = 17 December 2010
| location=London
| location=London
| first=John
| first=John
| last=Fordham|authorlink=John Fordham}}</ref>
| last=Fordham|author-link=John Fordham (jazz critic)}}</ref>


From 1975 to 1978 he led a nine-piece band called Ninesense,<ref name="guardian"/> performing at the [[Bracknell Jazz Festival]] and similar events. His own groups since then, usually quartets or quintets, have most often worked in the [[free jazz]] mode, with little or no pre-composed material such as [[Soft Heap]] with [[Mark Hewins]].<ref>Stephen Yarwood, [http://homepages.3-c.coop/facelift/facelift/elton%20dean.html Elton Dean interview], ''Facelift'' ("issue 20 - the issue that never happened!").</ref> At the same time, he continued to work with other groups that are very composition-based, such as guitarist [[Phil Miller]]'s In Cahoots, drummer [[Pip Pyle]]'s Equipe Out,<ref name="guardian"/> and various projects with former [[Soft Machine]] bassist [[Hugh Hopper]].
From 1975 to 1978 he led a nine-piece band called Ninesense,<ref name="guardian"/> performing at the [[Bracknell Jazz Festival]] and similar events. Following this, his own groups were usually quartets or quintets, and most often worked in the [[free jazz]] mode, with little or no pre-composed material, such as [[Soft Heap]] with [[Mark Hewins]].<ref>Stephen Yarwood, [http://homepages.3-c.coop/facelift/facelift/elton%20dean.html Elton Dean interview], ''Facelift'' ("issue 20 – the issue that never happened!").</ref> However, he also continued to work with other groups that were very composition-based, such as guitarist [[Phil Miller]]'s In Cahoots, drummer [[Pip Pyle]]'s Equipe Out,<ref name="guardian"/> and various projects with former [[Soft Machine]] bassist [[Hugh Hopper]].<ref name=":02"/>


In 2002, Dean and three other former Soft Machine members ([[Hugh Hopper]], drummer [[John Stanley Marshall|John Marshall]], and guitarist [[Allan Holdsworth]]) toured and recorded under the name Soft Works.<ref>Bennett 2005, p. 398.</ref> With another former Soft Machine member, guitarist [[John Etheridge]], replacing Holdsworth, they subsequently toured and recorded as Soft Machine Legacy, playing some pieces from the original Soft Machine repertoire as well as new works.<ref name="indyobit"/> Featuring Dean, three albums of the Legacy have been released: ''Live in Zaandam'' (CD, rec. 2005/05/10), ''New Morning - The Paris Concert'' (DVD, rec. 2005/12/12) and the studio album ''Soft Machine Legacy'' (CD, 2006, rec. 2005).
In 2002, Dean and three other former Soft Machine members ([[Hugh Hopper]], drummer [[John Stanley Marshall|John Marshall]], and guitarist [[Allan Holdsworth]]) toured and recorded under the name Soft Works.<ref>Bennett 2005, p. 398.</ref> With another former Soft Machine member, guitarist [[John Etheridge]], replacing Holdsworth, they subsequently toured and recorded as Soft Machine Legacy, playing some pieces from the original Soft Machine repertoire as well as new works.<ref name="indyobit"/> Featuring Dean, three albums of the Legacy have been released: ''Live in Zaandam'' (CD, rec. 2005/05/10), ''New Morning – The Paris Concert'' (DVD, rec. 2005/12/12) and the studio album ''Soft Machine Legacy'' (CD, 2006, rec. 2005).


Dean's last musical collaborations also included those with Soft Bounds, a quartet composed of Dean, Hugh Hopper, Sophia Domancich and Simon Goubert, and also with Alex Maguire's project Psychic Warrior.<ref>{{cite web|title=Psychic Warrior|url=http://www.huxrecords.com/cdsales59.htm|publisher=Hux Records|accessdate=20 October 2012}}</ref>
Dean's last musical collaborations also included those with Soft Bounds, a quartet composed of Dean, Hugh Hopper, Sophia Domancich and Simon Goubert, and also with Alex Maguire's project Psychic Warrior.<ref>{{cite web|title=Psychic Warrior|url=http://www.huxrecords.com/cdsales59.htm|publisher=Hux Records|access-date=20 October 2012}}</ref>


Dean died on 8 February 2006 after more than a year of "heart and liver problems," on the day before he was to join a reunion of Soft Machine.<ref name="indyobit"/>
Dean died on 8 February 2006 after more than a year of heart and liver problems.<ref name="indyobit"/> He was replaced in Soft Machine Legacy by [[Theo Travis]].


==Discography==
==Discography==
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*1975: ''Live at the BBC'' <small>(with Ninesense, released 2003)</small>
*1975: ''Live at the BBC'' <small>(with Ninesense, released 2003)</small>
*1976: ''Oh! For The Edge''
*1976: ''Oh! For The Edge''
*1976: ''They All Be On This Old Road'' <small>(live)</small>
*1976: ''They All Be on This Old Road'' <small>(live)</small>
*1977: ''Happy Daze'' <small>(live)</small>
*1977: ''Happy Daze'' <small>(live)</small>
*1979: ''Three's Company Two's A Crowd''
*1979: ''Three's Company Two's A Crowd''
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*2000: ''QED''
*2000: ''QED''
*2002: ''Sea of Infinity''
*2002: ''Sea of Infinity''
*2022: ''On Italian Roads (Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan, 1979)''
*2023: ''Seven For Lee Variations: On Italian Roads, Vol. 2''
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*1976: Dean, Hopper, Tippett, Gallivan: ''Cruel But Fair''
*1976: Dean, Hopper, Tippett, Gallivan: ''Cruel But Fair''
*1977: Dean, Skidmore: ''El Skid''
*1977: Dean, Skidmore: ''El Skid''
*1977: Dean, Wheeler, Gallivan: ''The Cheque Is In The Mail''
*1977: Dean, Wheeler, Gallivan: ''The Cheque Is in the Mail''
*1977: Dean, Hopper, Tippett, Gallivan: ''Mercy Dash''
*1977: Dean, Hopper, Tippett, Gallivan: ''Mercy Dash''
*1985: Dean, Miller: ''Steve Miller Trio Meets Elton Dean''
*1985: Dean, Miller: ''Steve Miller Trio Meets Elton Dean''
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*1995: Dean, Dunmall: ''If Dubois Only Knew''
*1995: Dean, Dunmall: ''If Dubois Only Knew''
*1995: Dean, Riley: ''Descending Circles''
*1995: Dean, Riley: ''Descending Circles''
*1996: Dean, Rudd: ''Rumours Of An Incident''
*1996: Dean, Rudd: ''Rumours of an Incident''
*1996: Dean, Cuomo: ''The Origin Of Man''
*1996: Dean, Cuomo: ''The Origin of Man''
*1997: Dean, Hopper, Clarke, Knight: ''The Mind In The Trees''
*1997: Dean, Hopper, Clarke, Knight: ''The Mind in the Trees''
*1998: Dean, Bellatalla, Sanders: ''Into The Nierika''
*1998: Dean, Bellatalla, Sanders: ''Into The Nierika''
*2000: Dean, Trovesi: ''Freedom in Jazz''
*2000: Dean, Trovesi: ''Freedom in Jazz''
*2004: Dean, Domancich: ''Avant''
*2004: Dean, Domancich: ''Avant''
*2004: Dean, Dunmall, Rogers, Blanco: ''Remembrance'' <small>(released posthumously in 2013)</small>
*2004: Dean, Dunmall, Rogers, Blanco: ''Remembrance'' <small>(released posthumously in 2013)</small>
*2007: Dean, The Wrong Object: ''The Unbelievable Truth'' <small>(recorded live in Paris at Glaz'Art on October 18, 2005)</small>
*2005: Dean, Wilkinson, Bianco: ''Freebeat – Northern Lights''
*2007: Dean, The Wrong Object: ''The Unbelievable Truth'' <small>(recorded live in Paris at Glaz'Art on 18 October 2005)</small>
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*1972: ''[[Fifth (Soft Machine album)|Fifth]]''
*1972: ''[[Fifth (Soft Machine album)|Fifth]]''
'''Other bands'''
'''Other bands'''
*1971: Centipede: ''Septober Energy''
*1971: [[Centipede (band)|Centipede]]: ''[[Septober Energy]]''
*1978: Soft Head: ''Rogue Element''
*1978: Soft Head: ''Rogue Element''
*1979: Soft Heap: ''Al Dente'' <small>(live)</small>
*1979: Soft Heap: ''Al Dente'' <small>(live)</small>
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===Appearances===
===Appearances===
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*1969: [[Julie Driscoll]]: ''69''
*1969: [[Julie Driscoll]]: ''[[1969 (Julie Driscoll album)|1969]]''
*1970: Keith Tippett: ''You Are Here... I Am There''
*1970: Keith Tippett: ''You Are Here... I Am There''
*1970: [[Kevin Ayers]]: ''BBC Sessions 1970-1976''
*1970: [[Kevin Ayers]]: ''BBC Sessions 1970-1976''
*1970: [[Robert Wyatt]]: ''[[The End of an Ear|The End Of An Ear]]''
*1970: [[Robert Wyatt]]: ''[[The End of an Ear]]''
*1971: Keith Tippett: ''Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening''
*1971: Keith Tippett: ''Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening''
*1971: Heads Hands & Feet: ''Heads Hands & Feet''
*1971: [[Heads Hands & Feet]]: ''Heads Hands & Feet''
*1971: Reg King: ''Reg King''
*1971: Reg King: ''Reg King''
*1972: Mike Hugg: ''Somewhere''
*1972: Mike Hugg: ''Somewhere''
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*1973: Mike Hugg: ''Stress & Strain''
*1973: Mike Hugg: ''Stress & Strain''
*1974: Hugh Hopper: ''Monster Band''
*1974: Hugh Hopper: ''Monster Band''
*1975: Brotherhood of Breath: ''Bremen to Bridgwater''
*1975: Brotherhood of Breath: ''[[Bremen to Bridgwater]]''
*1975: Dudu Pukwana: ''Diamond Express''
*1975: Dudu Pukwana: ''[[Diamond Express]]''
*1975: Julie Tippetts: ''Sunset Glow''
*1975: Julie Tippetts: ''Sunset Glow''
*1976: Hugh Hopper: ''Hoppertunity Box''
*1976: Hugh Hopper: ''Hoppertunity Box''
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*1987: Dennis Gonzalez Dallas-London Sextet: ''Catechism''
*1987: Dennis Gonzalez Dallas-London Sextet: ''Catechism''
*1988: Phil Miller: ''Split Seconds''
*1988: Phil Miller: ''Split Seconds''
*1991: Joe Gallivan's Soldiers Of The Road: ''Innocence''
*1991: Joe Gallivan's Soldiers of the Road: ''Innocence''
*1994: John Greaves: ''Songs''
*1994: John Greaves: ''Songs''
*1996: MASHU: ''Elephants in your head?''
*1996: MASHU: ''Elephants in your head?''
*1999: Roswell Rudd: ''Broad Strokes''
*1999: Roswell Rudd: ''[[Broad Strokes]]''
*2003: Psychic Warrior: ''Psychic Warrior''
*2003: Psychic Warrior: ''Psychic Warrior''
*2003: Carol Grimes: ''Mother''
*2003: Carol Grimes: ''Mother''
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==References==
==References==
*{{cite book|last=Bennett|first=Graham|title=Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous|year=2005|publisher=SAF Publishing Ltd|location=London|isbn=0 946719 84 5}}
*{{cite book|last=Bennett|first=Graham|title=Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous|year=2005|publisher=SAF Publishing Ltd|location=London|isbn=0-946719-84-5}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121022233743/http://www.hulloder.nl/ed-main.html Discography]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022233743/http://www.hulloder.nl/ed-main.html Discography]
*[http://www.calyx-canterbury.fr/mus/dean_elton.html Extended Biography]
* [http://www.calyx-canterbury.fr/mus/dean_elton.html Extended Biography]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060217231020/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=8788 AllAboutJazz.com: "Former Soft Machine saxophone player Elton Dean dies"]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060217231020/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=8788 AllAboutJazz.com: "Former Soft Machine saxophone player Elton Dean dies"]
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929124627/http://www.btinternet.com/~stephen.yarwood/elton.htm |date=29 September 2007 |title=Elton Dean }} - interview for [http://www.faceliftmagazine.co.uk Facelift Magazine].
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929124627/http://www.btinternet.com/~stephen.yarwood/elton.htm |date=29 September 2007 |title=Elton Dean }} – interview for [http://www.faceliftmagazine.co.uk Facelift Magazine].


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Elton Dean
Background information
Born(1945-10-28)28 October 1945
Nottingham, England
OriginTooting, London, England
Died8 February 2006(2006-02-08) (aged 60)
London, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • songwriter
  • record producer
Instruments
  • Saxophone
  • saxello
  • keyboards
Years active1966–2006

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) and occasionally keyboards. Part of the Canterbury scene, he featured in Soft Machine, among others.[2]

Life and career

Dean was born in Nottingham, England, moving to Tooting, London, soon after his birth.[3] From 1966 to 1967, Dean was a member of the band Bluesology, led by Long John Baldry. The band's pianist, Reginald Dwight, afterward combined Dean's and Baldry's first names for his own stage name, Elton John.[4] This fact is alluded to in the 2019 film Rocketman, a biopic of the life and career of Elton John, where Dean is portrayed by Evan Walsh,[5] however the film fictionally cites John Lennon as the inspiration for Elton John's taken surname.

Dean established his reputation as a member of the Keith Tippett Sextet from 1968 to 1970, and in the band Soft Machine from 1969 to 1972.[4] Shortly before leaving Soft Machine he started his own group, Just Us.[6]

From 1975 to 1978 he led a nine-piece band called Ninesense,[6] performing at the Bracknell Jazz Festival and similar events. Following this, his own groups were usually quartets or quintets, and most often worked in the free jazz mode, with little or no pre-composed material, such as Soft Heap with Mark Hewins.[7] However, he also continued to work with other groups that were very composition-based, such as guitarist Phil Miller's In Cahoots, drummer Pip Pyle's Equipe Out,[6] and various projects with former Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper.[2]

In 2002, Dean and three other former Soft Machine members (Hugh Hopper, drummer John Marshall, and guitarist Allan Holdsworth) toured and recorded under the name Soft Works.[8] With another former Soft Machine member, guitarist John Etheridge, replacing Holdsworth, they subsequently toured and recorded as Soft Machine Legacy, playing some pieces from the original Soft Machine repertoire as well as new works.[4] Featuring Dean, three albums of the Legacy have been released: Live in Zaandam (CD, rec. 2005/05/10), New Morning – The Paris Concert (DVD, rec. 2005/12/12) and the studio album Soft Machine Legacy (CD, 2006, rec. 2005).

Dean's last musical collaborations also included those with Soft Bounds, a quartet composed of Dean, Hugh Hopper, Sophia Domancich and Simon Goubert, and also with Alex Maguire's project Psychic Warrior.[9]

Dean died on 8 February 2006 after more than a year of heart and liver problems.[4] He was replaced in Soft Machine Legacy by Theo Travis.

Discography

As leader

  • 1971: Elton Dean (reissued as Just Us)
  • 1975: Live at the BBC (with Ninesense, released 2003)
  • 1976: Oh! For The Edge
  • 1976: They All Be on This Old Road (live)
  • 1977: Happy Daze (live)
  • 1979: Three's Company Two's A Crowd
  • 1979: The 100 Club Concert (released posthumously in 2012)
  • 1980: Boundaries
  • 1985: The Bologna Tape
  • 1986: Welcomet
  • 1988: Duos (cassette only)
  • 1988: Trios (cassette only)
  • 1989: EDQ Live (cassette only)
  • 1989: Unlimited Saxophone Company
  • 1990: Vortex Tapes (live)
  • 1995: Silent Knowledge
  • 1997: Headless Quartet
  • 1997: Newsense
  • 1998: Moorsong
  • 2000: QED
  • 2002: Sea of Infinity
  • 2022: On Italian Roads (Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan, 1979)
  • 2023: Seven For Lee Variations: On Italian Roads, Vol. 2

Collaborations

  • 1976: Dean, Hopper, Tippett, Gallivan: Cruel But Fair
  • 1977: Dean, Skidmore: El Skid
  • 1977: Dean, Wheeler, Gallivan: The Cheque Is in the Mail
  • 1977: Dean, Hopper, Tippett, Gallivan: Mercy Dash
  • 1985: Dean, Miller: Steve Miller Trio Meets Elton Dean
  • 1990: Dean, Howard Riley Quartet: All The Tradition
  • 1992: Dean, Hewins: Bar Torque
  • 1993: Dean, Riley: One Two One
  • 1995: Dean, Dunmall: If Dubois Only Knew
  • 1995: Dean, Riley: Descending Circles
  • 1996: Dean, Rudd: Rumours of an Incident
  • 1996: Dean, Cuomo: The Origin of Man
  • 1997: Dean, Hopper, Clarke, Knight: The Mind in the Trees
  • 1998: Dean, Bellatalla, Sanders: Into The Nierika
  • 2000: Dean, Trovesi: Freedom in Jazz
  • 2004: Dean, Domancich: Avant
  • 2004: Dean, Dunmall, Rogers, Blanco: Remembrance (released posthumously in 2013)
  • 2005: Dean, Wilkinson, Bianco: Freebeat – Northern Lights
  • 2007: Dean, The Wrong Object: The Unbelievable Truth (recorded live in Paris at Glaz'Art on 18 October 2005)

Bands

with Soft Machine (see Soft Machine discography for live albums)

Other bands

  • 1971: Centipede: Septober Energy
  • 1978: Soft Head: Rogue Element
  • 1979: Soft Heap: Al Dente (live)
  • 1979: Soft Heap: Soft Heap
  • 1983: Soft Heap: A Veritable Centaur
  • 1985: Pip Pyle's Equip' Out: L'Equipe Out
  • 1989: In Cahoots: Live 86–89
  • 1990: Anglo Italian Quartet: Put It Right Mr. Smoothie
  • 1990: l'Equip' Out: Up!
  • 1995: British Saxophone Quartet: Early October
  • 1995: Anglo Italian Quartet: Twice Upon A Time
  • 2002: Soft Works: Abracadabra
  • 2003: Soft Mountain: Soft Mountain
  • 2004: Soft Bounds: Live at Le Triton
  • 2005: Soft Machine Legacy: Live in Zaandam
  • 2006: Soft Machine Legacy: Soft Machine Legacy

Appearances

  • 1969: Julie Driscoll: 1969
  • 1970: Keith Tippett: You Are Here... I Am There
  • 1970: Kevin Ayers: BBC Sessions 1970-1976
  • 1970: Robert Wyatt: The End of an Ear
  • 1971: Keith Tippett: Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening
  • 1971: Heads Hands & Feet: Heads Hands & Feet
  • 1971: Reg King: Reg King
  • 1972: Mike Hugg: Somewhere
  • 1973: Alexis Korner: Alexis Korner
  • 1973: Mike Hugg: Stress & Strain
  • 1974: Hugh Hopper: Monster Band
  • 1975: Brotherhood of Breath: Bremen to Bridgwater
  • 1975: Dudu Pukwana: Diamond Express
  • 1975: Julie Tippetts: Sunset Glow
  • 1976: Hugh Hopper: Hoppertunity Box
  • 1976: Intercontinental Express: London
  • 1978: Keith Tippett: Frames
  • 1978: Carla Bley Band: European Tour 1977
  • 1979: John Stevens Dance Orchestra: A Luta Continua
  • 1981: National Health: DS Al Coda
  • 1984: Keith Tippett: A Loose Kite in a Gentle Wind...
  • 1984: The Big Team: Under The Influence
  • 1985: Phil Miller: Cutting Both Ways
  • 1985: Harry Beckett: Pictures of You
  • 1987: Dennis Gonzalez Dallas-London Sextet: Catechism
  • 1988: Phil Miller: Split Seconds
  • 1991: Joe Gallivan's Soldiers of the Road: Innocence
  • 1994: John Greaves: Songs
  • 1996: MASHU: Elephants in your head?
  • 1999: Roswell Rudd: Broad Strokes
  • 2003: Psychic Warrior: Psychic Warrior
  • 2003: Carol Grimes: Mother
  • 2003: Hugh Hopper: Jazzloops
  • 2003: In Cahoots: All That
  • 2005: The Wrong Object featuring Elton Dean: The Unbelievable Truth

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Elton Dean Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b Sutcliffe, Phil (5 March 1991). "Where are they Now? Soft Machine". Q. 55: 33.
  3. ^ Bennett 2005, pp. 176-177.
  4. ^ a b c d "The Independent Obituaries – Elton Dean". London. 13 February 2006. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
  5. ^ IMDB – Evan Walsh
  6. ^ a b c Fordham, John (10 February 2006). "The Guardian Obituary: Elton Dean". London. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
  7. ^ Stephen Yarwood, Elton Dean interview, Facelift ("issue 20 – the issue that never happened!").
  8. ^ Bennett 2005, p. 398.
  9. ^ "Psychic Warrior". Hux Records. Retrieved 20 October 2012.

References

  • Bennett, Graham (2005). Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous. London: SAF Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-946719-84-5.
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