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Elton Dean

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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. [1]

32 relations: Allan Holdsworth, Bluesology, Bracknell Jazz Festival, Carla Bley, Electronic keyboard, Elton John, European Tour 1977, Fifth (Soft Machine album), Fourth (Soft Machine album), Free jazz, Hugh Hopper, Jazz, John Etheridge, John Marshall (drummer), Julie Driscoll Tippetts, Keith Tippett, Kevin Ayers, London, Long John Baldry, Mark Hewins, Nottingham, Phil Miller, Pip Pyle, Robert Wyatt, Saxophone, Soft Heap, Soft Machine, The End of an Ear, The Wrong Object, Third (Soft Machine album), Tooting, Zaandam.

Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British guitarist and composer.

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Bluesology

Bluesology was a 1960s English R&B popular music group, best remembered as being the first professional band of which Reggie Dwight – later known as Elton John – was a member.

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Bracknell Jazz Festival

The Bracknell Jazz Festival was a major showcase for British modern jazz in the 1980s.

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Carla Bley

Carla Bley (née Lovella May Borg; born May 11, 1936) is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader.

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Electronic keyboard

An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument, an electronic or digital derivative of keyboard instruments.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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European Tour 1977

European Tour 1977 is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 1977 in Munich, Germany and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1978.

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Fifth (Soft Machine album)

Fifth (the title is Fifth while the front cover shows the number 5), is the fifth studio album by the Canterbury associated band Soft Machine, released in 1972.

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Fourth (Soft Machine album)

Fourth is the fourth studio album by the Canterbury band Soft Machine, released in 1971.

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Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 60s as musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes or tempos.

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Hugh Hopper

Hugh Colin Hopper (29 April 1945 – 7 June 2009) was a British progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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John Etheridge

John Michael Glyn Etheridge (born 12 January 1948 in Lambeth, South London) is an English jazz fusion guitarist known for his eclecticism and broad range of associations in jazz, classical, and contemporary music.

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John Marshall (drummer)

John Stanley Marshall (born 28 August 1941) is an English drummer and founding member of the jazz rock band Nucleus.

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Julie Driscoll Tippetts

Julie Driscoll Tippetts (born 8 June 1947) is an English singer and actress, known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger and the Trinity.

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Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett (born Keith Graham Tippetts; 25 August 1947) is a British jazz pianist and composer.

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Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Long John Baldry

John William "Long John" Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English-Canadian blues singer and a voice actor.

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Mark Hewins

Mark Hewins (born 24 March 1955) is a British jazz guitarist known particularly for his connections to the Canterbury scene.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Phil Miller

Philip Paul Miller (22 January 1949 – 18 October 2017) was an English progressive rock/jazz guitarist who was part of the Canterbury scene.

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Pip Pyle

Phillip "Pip" Pyle (4 April 1950 – 28 August 2006) was an English-born drummer from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who later resided in France.

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Soft Heap

Soft Heap was a Canterbury scene supergroup founded in January 1978.

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Soft Machine

Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs.

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The End of an Ear

The End of an Ear is the debut solo album by Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt.

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The Wrong Object

The Wrong Object is an avant-garde jazz fusion band from Belgium.

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Third (Soft Machine album)

Third is the third studio album by the Canterbury associated band Soft Machine, originally released in 1970 as a double LP, with each side of the original vinyl consisting of a single, long composition.

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Tooting

Tooting is a district of South London, England, forming part of the Wandsworth borough.

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Zaandam

Zaandam is a city in the province of North Holland, Netherlands.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_Dean

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