Tag Archives: Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen

In his all-too-brief professional music job, jazz-rock keyboardist and composer Alan Gowen garnered respect from his peers and a little cult audience but bit more than that, although he arguably deserved a lot more. He produced his initial tag within what’s now known as the Canterbury picture of English prog …

Hugh Hopper was most widely known as the electrical bassist for Soft Machine through the band’s most innovative and critically acclaimed period, but his musical career prolonged much beyond his period spent with that one group. He probably manifested the Canterbury scene’s intensifying spirit — a minimum of over the …