Jazz Articles about Soft Machine Legacy

Soft Machine Legacy: Live In Zaandam

by John Kelman
September 1, 2005

With a recent surge of interest in the 1970s jazz/rock ensemble Soft Machine encouraged by a wealth of archival recordings, some may view use of the word “Soft by past members to be opportunistic--but that would be unfair. 2003 witnessed Soft Works, with ex-Softs bassist Hugh Hopper, saxophonist Elton Dean, drummer John Marshall, and guitarist Allan Holdsworth creating a more fusion-centric band. More recently, Soft Bounds--again with Hopper and Dean--has mined a more acoustic and free space ...