Elton Dean - Just Us (1971) CD Rip

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Title: Just Us
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: Cuneiform Records [Rune 103]
Genre: Free Jazz, Jazz Rock, Canterbury Scene
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 65:41
Total Size: 405 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

1. Ooglenovastrome - 15:18
2. Something Passed Me By - 5:31
3. Blind Badger - 6:41
4. Neo-Caliban Grides - 6:53
5. Part: The Last - 5:48
6. Banking On Bishopsgate - 20:30
7. Fun Cup - 4:28
Elton Dean - Just Us (1971) CD Rip

personnel :

Neville Whitehead - Bass
Roy Babbington - Bass
Mark Charig - Cornet
Phil Howard - Drums
Mike Ratledge - Piano, Organ
Elton Dean - Saxophone [Alto], Saxello, Piano

Drums – Louis Moholo (track 7)
Bass [6 String Electric], Guitar – Jeff Green (tracks: 6, 7)
Trombone – Nick Evans (tracks: 6, 7)

welcome reissue of music first recorded in 1971 and 1972, shortly before Dean left the popular British jazz-rock group the Soft Machine, which he had officially joined only a short time earlier, in late 1969. On this recording, Dean plays alto sax, saxello and electric piano and is aided by a group of musicians which includes two additional Soft Machine members, Mike Ratledge on organ and electric piano and Roy Babbington on string bass. One of Dean's compositions on Just Us, "Neo-Caliban Grides," was actually recorded by the Softs, however, in spite of the obvious parallels, Dean's group is by no means a Soft Machine knock off. The absence of drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt and bassist Hugh Hopper reduces both the rock element and the experimental electronics, while the presence of the additional musicians -- especially Marc Charig on cornet -- gives Dean's group a fuller sound and one that is much more in the jazz tradition. Charig's contributions on horn and those of an electric guitarist on several tracks, invite some obvious comparisons with the Miles Davis electric band of the Bitches Brew era. And with the extraordinary recording by the Davis group having been released only two years earlier in 1969, its influence on hip young British jazz players would have been substantial. Dean's prominent use of the electric keyboards also provides an obvious parallel with the contemporaneous Davis group.~William Tilland