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Soft Machine: Drop
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo bellissimo CD documenta il tour europeo dei Soft Machine dell'autunno 1971. Da pochi mesi il batterista Robert Wyatt aveva lasciato la band, pressato e spinto fuori dai dubbi dei due compagni storici Hopper e Ratledge. Al suo posto, su suggerimento di Elton Dean, era arrivato il giovane batterista australiano Phil Howard, una vera e propria ...
MoonJune Records
by Martin Longley
Leonardo Pavkovic is a looming presence on the ever-expanding scene of polynational, polymusical globe-gobbling. Some might deem his MoonJune Records operation a special home for European prog rock, but this is only one aspect of its makeup. “MoonJune is a label for progressive music," he announces, holding court, at an Egyptian kebab cafe in Astoria. “Whatever ...
Alex Maguire Sextet: Brewed In Belgium
by Nic Jones
Keyboard player Alex Maguire has worked with the present day incarnation of the British band Hatfield and the North and clearly he has more than sufficient chops to deal with a range of musical situations. The fare offered here is often freer than the Hatfield way, however. And when the music goes inside, such ...
Soft Machine: Drop
by Gary Gomes
Despite significant ambivalence about Soft Machine around the time of this recording, it was the furthest out that the group ever ventured, and its closest approach to free jazz. It also possessed the freest drummer to ever grace a rock group. Australian Phil Howard was, in fact, free by most jazz standards, but by jettisoning the ...
Command All Stars: Curiosities 1972
by Nic Jones
That infinite moment with which a lot of the music AAJ covers is preoccupied is amplified here, rife with a depth which far outstrips the casual manner in which the music came together. Afforded the relative luxury of three days of studio time in February 1972, some of that time's most creative individuals on the British ...
Elton Dean / Steve Miller Trio / Soft Heap: British genre-benders
by Clifford Allen
Though non-idiomatic is a term often thrown around when referring to post-1960s British improvisation, the more apt one might be cross-idiomatic, insofar as significant players have worked across genres with regularity. Take alto saxophonist Elton Dean, for example. He was part of the three-horn front line of pianist Keith Tippett's group, which was co-opted by the ...
Soft Mountain
By Elton Dean
Label: Hux Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Soft Mountain Suite Pt. 1 (30:40); 02. Soft Mountain Suite Pt. 2 (27:55).
The Unbelievable Truth
By Elton Dean
Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Seven For Lee; Millennium (The Wrong Object); Baker's Treat; The Unbelievable Truth; A Cannery Catastrophe; Cunnimingus Redux; The Basho Variations.
The Wrong Object: The Unbelievable Truth / Soft Machine Legacy: Steam / Hugh Hopper: Numero D'Vol
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il celebre saxofonista inglese Elton Dean ci ha lasciato oltre un anno fa ma continua a segnare tracce e a indicare segnali importanti attraverso la pubblicazione di registrazioni postume, dichiarati omaggi da parte dei suoi ultimi compagni di strada e avventure parallele che lo avrebbero visto certamente spettatore interessato. The Wrong Object The Unbelievable Truth Moonjune ...
Elton Dean & The Wrong Object: The Unbelievable Truth
by Nic Jones
Poignant doesn't cover it. This was one of Elton Dean's last gigs before his death and all the qualities that made him such a distinctive voice on alto sax and saxello--his wit, his ascetic, unsentimental lyricism and the like--are caught in abundance and in the company of a band who do a whole lot more than ...
