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British group Gentle Heap was a short-lived group made up of previous members of Smooth Machine and Hatfield as well as the North. The lineup of the group was Elton Dean (saxophone; Soft Machine), Alan Gowen (keyboards; Hatfield as well as the North), Hugh Hopper (bass; Soft Machine), and Pip …

United kingdom saxophonist Elton Dean was among the crucial figures in English free jazz for many years. Closely associated with the Canterbury picture, Dean — given birth to in Nottingham on Oct 28, 1945 — experienced a réamounté a lot more assorted and than that label would describe. Dean started …

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 …

Drummer Pip Pyle have been involved with a lot of Canterbury scene rings that certain interviewer asked the entirely valid issue, “How could it be you never were able to play with Soft Machine?” (“Well, I under no circumstances got asked, I assume” was Pyle’s reply). He wasn’t there at …

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 …