Elton Dean

[Michael Ward]

The UK's Elton Dean of Soft Machine fame died on Febuary 7th. he was only 60. Elton played fantastic alto and saxello with the Softs and his own bands. A true innovator.. cheers Elton.

[Ruediger Kramer]

i hear a lot of Elton Deans music and thank you for the (bad) message, but that was posted a few days before:

http://www.saxontheweb.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=34508

[Michael Ward]

I missed that sorry. My post was just an instinctive ,personal reaction. I met Elton once at the BBC Maida Vale studio and listened to some of his saxello improvisations . I liked them very much. cheers

[MM]

What a shame. I dug his playing a lot as my tastes were migrating from rock to jazz. He was a terrific modal player.