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1990-1999
10/2/1990, Anglo Italian Quartet, Modena Jazz Festival
(Tracce di Jazz 1990)
1. Small Strides (Dean)
2. I Wish (Beckett)
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Elton Dean - saxello, alto sax
Enrico Fazio - double bass
Fiorenzo Sordini - drums
released on Put It Right Mr. Smoothie (Splasc(h) 1991 CD)
12-13/2/1990, Anglo Italian Quartet, Barigozzi Studio, Milano, Italy,
sessions for "Put It Right Mr. Smoothie" CD
1. Unda (Dean)
2. Put It Right Mr. Smoothie (Beckett)
3. Sing Sing (Fazio)
4. Small Strides (Dean)
5. One Three Nine (Dean)
6. I Wish (Beckett)
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Elton Dean - saxello, alto sax
Enrico Fazio - double bass
Fiorenzo Sordini - drums
released on Put It Right Mr. Smoothie (Splasc(h) 1991 CD)
21/6/1990, Elton Dean/Howard Riley Quartet, Porcupine Studio, London,
session for "All The Tradition" CD
1. Darn That Dream (Delange/Van Heusen)
2. The Longest Day (Dean/Riley/Rogers/Sanders)
3. Crescent (Coltrane)
4. Convivial Convocation (Dean/Riley/Rogers/Sanders)
5. I Remember Clifford (Golson)
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Howard Riley - piano
Paul Rogers - double bass
Mark Sanders - drums
released as All The Tradition (SLAM 1990 CD)
24-28/9/1990, Elton Dean, The Vortex, London
1. Second Thoughts
2. First Impressions
3. Going Fourth
4. Third Time Lucky
5. Taking the Fifth
1.
Elton Dean - alto sax
Keith Tippett - piano
Marcio Mattos - double bass
Louis Moholo - drums
2.
Elton Dean - alto sax
Trevor Watts - alto sax
Simon Picard - tenor sax
Jerry Underwood - baritone sax
Paul Rogers - double bass
Tony Levin - drums
3.
Elton Dean - alto sax
Nick Evans - trombone
Marcio Mattos - cello
Mark Sanders - drums
4.
Elton Dean - alto sax
Paul Rutherford - trombone
Paul Rogers - double bass
Nigel Morris - drums
5.
Elton Dean - alto sax
Howard Riley - piano
Paul Rogers - double bass
Mark Sanders - drums
released as The Vortex Tapes (SLAM 1992 CD)
8-10/10/1990, l'Equip' Out, Studio de Chennevières, France,
sessions for "Up !" CD
1. Cauliflower Ears (Pyle)
2. Amba (aka Unda) (Dean)
3. Bimbo (Domancich)
4. Lydia (Domancich)
5. Thunder/A.R. Rennes (Dean/Domancich)
6. Petit Pantalon (aka Small Strides) (Dean)
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello, piano
Sophia Domancich - piano, organ synthesizer
Paul Rogers - double bass
Pip Pyle - drums
released as Up! (Too Much/Gimini 1991 LP/CD)
1-2/8/1991, Joe Gallivan & the Soldiers of
the Road, The Premises, London, sessions for "Innocence" CD
1. Materialism
2. Voices of Ancient Children
3. Ima
4. Marcio's Maze
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Evan Parker - soprano sax, tenor sax
Neil Metcalf - flute
Guy Barker - trumpet
Gerard Presencer - trumpet
Claude Deppa - trumpet
Jim Dvorak - trumpet
Paul Rutherford - trombone
Ashley Slater - trombone
Marcio Mattos - double bass
Joe Gallivan - drums
released as Innocence (Cadence 1992 CD)
1/12/1991, Elton Dean, The Red Rose Club, London
1. Dayday
Elton Dean - alto saxophone
Paul Rogers - double bass
Mark Sanders - drums
released on Various Artists - The Saxophone Phenomenon (SLAM 1992 CD)
12/1991, In Cahoots, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan
1. No Holds Barred
2. Bass Motives
3. Speaking To Lydia
4. Truly Yours
5. Second Sight
6. Green & Purple (extract)
7. Digging In (extract)
Phil Miller - guitar, guitar-synthesizer
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Jim Dvorak - trumpet
Peter Lemer - synthesizer
Fred Baker - bass
Pip Pyle - drums
released as Phil Miller - In Cahoots Live In Japan (Crescent Discs 1991
CD)
2-3/1/1992, Dedication Orchestra, Gateway Studios,
London, sessions for "Spirits Rejoice" CD
1. Traumatic Experience
2. Ithi Gqi
3. B My Dear
4. Dancing Damon
5. Hug Pine
6. Andromeda
7. Manje
8. Sonia
9. Introduction To You Ain't Gonna Know Me
10. You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cause You Think You Know Me
11. Woza
Phil Minton - vocals
Maggie Nicols - vocals
Julie Tippetts - vocals
Guy Barker - trumpet (solo on 7)
Harry Beckett - trumpet (solo on 2,5)
Claude Deppa - trumpet (solo on 6), vocals on 11
Jim Dvorak - trumpet (solo on 8), penny whistle on 8
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet on 5,6,10 (solo on 5)
Django Bates - E-flat peckhorn (solo on 10)
Dave Amis - trombone
Malcolm Grifiths - trombone (solo on 4)
Radu Malfatti - trombone
Paul Rutherford - trombone
Dave Powell - tuba
Neil Metcalfe - flute (solo on 8)
Lol Coxhill - soprano sax (solo on 8), tenor sax on 7,11
Ray Warleigh - alto sax (solo on 3), flute on 5
Elton Dean - alto sax (solo on 2)
Evan Parker - tenor sax (solo on 6)
Alan Skidmore - tenor sax (solo on 5,6,7)
Chris Biscoe - baritone sax
Keith Tippett - piano (solo on 2,6)
Paul Rogers - double bass (solo on 2)
Louis Moholo - drums, vocals on 5,11 (solo on 2)
released as Spirits Rejoice (Ogun 1992 CD)
30/7/1992 & 21/10/1993, Pip Pyle, Studio de Chennevieres, sessions
for "Seven Year Itch" CD
1. Seven Sisters
2. Foetal Fanfare Fandango
1.
Richard Sinclair - vocals
Dave Stewart - keyboards
Phil Miller - guitar
Pip Pyle - keyboards, programmes, drums
Paul Rogers - double bass
Michel Godard - tuba
Elton Dean - saxello
Jean-François Canape - trumpet
Yves Favre - trombone
Pierre Marcault - percussion
2.
Didier Malherbe - alto sax
Elton Dean - saxello
Alan Guillard - tenor sax
Jean-François Canape - trumpet
Yvon Guillard - trumpet
Yves Favre - trombone
Michel Godard - tuba
Pip Pyle - military drums
released on Seven Year Itch (Voiceprint 1998 CD)
Elton at home © Mark Hewins
8/10/1992, Mark Hewins & Elton Dean, Jazz Café, London
Cover of Bar Torque (Moonjune Records)
1. Bar Toque
2. Sylvan
3. Merilyn's Cave
Mark Hewins - guitars
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
released as Live At The Jazz Café (Musart 1992 tape) and as Bar Torque
(Moonjune 2001 CD)
15-17/3/1993, In Cahoots, Studio de Chennevières, France,
sessions for "Recent Discoveries" CD
1. Riffy
2. Trick Of The Light
3. The Opener
4. Recent Discoveries
5. Chez Gege
6. Tide
7. Breadhead
Phil Miller - guitar, guitar-synthesizer
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Jim Dvorak - trumpet
Fred Baker - bass
Pip Pyle - drums
released as Phil Miller - In Cahoots Recent Discoveries (Crescent Discs
1995 CD)
20/5/1993, Elton Dean/Howard Riley, London Jazz Festival
1. Turn out the stars
2. Comprehension
3. Darn that dream
4. Shared confidences
5. Crescent
6. Duopoly
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Howard Riley - piano
released on One Two One (SLAM 2000 CD)
Sometime in 1993 (?), Towering Inferno, Diorama studios,
Lavender Hill studios, Camden Lock and Porcupine, all London, LGM Studios,
Budapest, sessions for "Kaddish" CD
1. Rose
2. Prayer
3. Dachau
4. 4 By 2
5. Edvard Kiraly
6. Memory
7. Not Me
8. Reverse Field
9. Occupation
10. Sto Mondo Rotondo
11. Organ Loop
12. Toll (I)
13. Toll (II)
14. Ruin
15. Juden
16. Pogrom
17. Partisans
18. Modern Times
19. Rose (II)
20. Bell
21. Kaddish
22. Weaver
Richard Wolfson - composer, keyboards, guitar, piano, organ, programming,
bass, bells
Andy Saunders - composer, guitar, programming, soprano sax, alto sax, flute,
keyboards,
with:
Márta Sebestyén - vocals
Endre Szkárosi - lyrics, vocals
Malcolm Miller - voice/cantor
Anya Kubrick - mezzo-soprano
David Pearl - cantor
Rabbi Tamas Raj - Kaddish
Theo - voice
Steve Kellner - drums
Gaspar Lawal - drums, percussion
John Marshall - drums on 11 & 17-18
Chris Cutler - drums on 17
Elton Dean - saxello on 6, alto sax on 9
Tim Hodgkinson - baritone sax on 7
Tim Roseman - trumpet, shofar
Alexander Kolkowski - violin
Rick Koster - violin
Jocelyn Pook - viola
Glyn Perrin - piano
Electra Strings - string quartet
Choral Cymry Llundain - voices
released as Kaddish (TI Records 1993 CD)
Somewhere in 1993 and/or 1994, John Greaves, Studio Acousti,
Paris, sessions for "Songs" CD
1. Old Kinderhook
2. The Song
3. Swelling Valley
4. The Green Fuse
5. Kew. Rhone
6. Eccentric Waters
7. Silence
8. The Price We Pay
9. L'Aise Aux Ex-Sans-Trique
10. Back Where We Began
11. Gegenstand
John Greaves - vocals, accordion, piano, bass
Francois Ovide - guitar
Sophia Domancich - piano
Paul Rodgers - double bass
Robert Wyatt - vocals & percussion on 2,5,11
Susan Belling - vocals on 3,8,10
Kristoffer Blegvad - vocals on 3,7,8
Caroline Loeb - vocals on 6,9
Elton Dean - saxello
Mireille Bauer - vibes
David Cunningham - guitar
Peter Kimberley - backing vocals
Benoit Blue Boy - harmonica
released as Songs (Resurgence 1995 CD)
3-5/1/1994, Dedication Orchestra, Surrey, England,
sessions for "Ixesha (Time)" CD
1. Travelling somewhere
2. Sondela
3. Blues For Nick
4. Mofolo
5. The Serpent's Kindly Eye
6. Lost Opportunities
7. MRA
8. Angel-Nomali
9. Wish You Sunshine
10. Bird Lives
11. Ixesha
Maggie Nicols - vocals
Julie Tippetts - vocals
David Serame - vocals
John Law - vocals, piano
Harry Beckett - trumpet
Claude Deppa - trumpet
Jim Dvorak - trumpet, vocals
Pat Higgs - trumpet
Henry Lowther -trumpet
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet
Ian Hammer - trumpet
Mark Charig - cornet, tenor horn
Dave Amis - trombone
Roland Bates -trombone
Malcolm Grifiths - trombone
Paul Rutherford - trombone
Andy Grappy - tuba
Dave Powell - tuba
Neil Metcalfe - flute
Lol Coxhill - soprano sax, tenor sax
Mike Williams - alto sax
Elton Dean - alto sax (solo on 4 & 6)
Evan Parker - tenor sax
Sean Bergin - tenor sax, alto sax
Chris Biscoe - baritone sax
Keith Tippett - piano
Paul Rogers - double bass
Louis Moholo - drums, vocals
released as Ixesha (Time) (Ogun 1994 CD)
28/2/1995, Elton Dean & Paul Dunmall, the home
of Paul Westwater, sessions for "If Dubois Only Knew" CD
1. See the Melody
2. Janet and Corina
3. Wide Asleep
4. If Dubois Only Knew
5. That's Your Plot
6. Deep Awake
7. Lomu
8. The Tale of Two Horns
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Paul Dunmall - tenor sax, C melody sax, soprano sax
released as If Dubois Only Knew (Voiceprint 1996 CD)
13/4/1995, MASHU, Passage Du Nord-Ouest, Paris
1. Passage Thru NW
Shyamal Maitra - percussion, midi devices
Hugh Hopper - bass, fuzzbox
Mark Hewins - guitar, midi devices
Elton Dean - Saxello
released on Elephants In Your Head? (Voiceprint 1997 CD)
14/4/1995, Pip Pyle's Equip'Out, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
1. Verse de Blue
2. Ifi Riff
3. Rumblestiltskin
4. Rumble Skin Stilt
5. Beneath
Pip Pyle - drums
Elton Dean - Saxello, alto saxophone
Patrice Meyer - guitar
Paul Rogers - bass
released on Instants (Hux 2004 CD)
7-8/5/1995, Anglo Italian Quartet, MDV Studios, Turin,
sessions for "Twice Upon A Time" CD
1. Twice Upon a Time
2. Once Upon a Time
3. Tinsel Town
4. Contrasts
5. The Timekeeper
6. More In More Out
7. Above and Below
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Elton Dean - saxello, alto sax
Enrico Fazio - double bass
Fiorenzo Sordini - drums
released as Twice Upon A Time (Splasc(h) 1995 CD)
1/6/1995, Elton Dean Quintet, The Premises, London,
session for "Silent Knowledge" CD
1. Gualchos
2. Sound Awake
3. First in the Wagon
4. Trains for Tooting
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Paul Dunmall - tenor sax
Sophia Domancich - piano
Paul Rogers - double bass
Tony Levin - drums
released as Silent Knowledge (Cuneiform 1996 CD)
4-5/10/1995, Howard Riley/Elton Dean Quartet,
The Premises, London, sessions for "Descending Circles" CD
1. Rumours
2. First In The Wagon
3. Descending Circles
4. Alignment
5. Veracity
6. Glimpsing
7. Sunflower
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Howard Riley - piano
Mario Castronari - double bass
Mark Sanders - drums
released as Descending Circles (Blueprint 1996 CD)
6/10/1995 The British Saxophone Quartet, The Holywell
Music Room, Oxford, England
1. Early October
2. Neologie Musicale
3. Time To Go Now
Elton Dean - alto sax on 1-2, saxello on 3
Paul Dunmall - soprano sax on 1-2, tenor sax on 3
Simon Picard - tenor sax
George Haslam - baritone sax
released as Early October (SLAM 1995 CD)
29-30/5/1996, 1/6/1996, In Cahoots, Hoxton Studios, London, sessions
for "Parallel" CD
1. Simmer
2. Parallel
3. ED Or Ian ?
4. Half Life
5. Sitdown
6. Billow
Phil Miller - guitar, guitar-synthesizer
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Jim Dvorak - trumpet
Peter Lemer - synthesizer
Fred Baker - bass
Pip Pyle - drums
released as Phil Miller - In Cahoots Parallel (Crescent Discs 1996 CD)
26/10/1996, Elton Dean Quartet & Roswell Rudd,
The Vortex, London
1. The Incident
2. The Goosebumps
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Roswell Rudd - trombone
Alex Maguire - piano
Marcio Mattos - double bass
Mark Sanders - drums
released as Rumours Of An Incident (SLAM 1997 CD)
28/10/1996, Dean/Dunmall/Levin/Rogers/Rudd/Tippett,
Protocol Studio, London, session for "Bladik" CD
1. Forearmed
2. Too Suchmuchness
3. 'K Ad Lib
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Paul Dunmall - tenor sax
Roswell Rudd - trombone
Keith Tippett - piano
Paul Rogers - double bass
Tony Levin - drums
released as Bladik (Cuneiform 1997 CD)
Sometime in 1996, Gallivan/Cuomo/Dean, RGS Studio,
Maui, Hawaii, sessions for "The Origin Of Man" CD
1. The Origin of Man
2. Never Alone
3. Above and Beyond
4. Continuum
5. Chunnel Vision
6. Ballad for Maui
7. Hana Highway
8. The Opening of the Heart
9. Piece of Resistance
10. Natural Causes
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Brian Cuomo - piano, keyboard
Joe Gallivan - drums
released as The Origin Of Man (No-Budget 1996 CD)
Sometime in 1996 (?), Jean-Louis Mechali, sessions
for "Ciné Club" CD
1. Le billard de milos et les quatre saisons
2. Amnios
3. Caribean Lullabye
4. Takawira
5. Le coq et l'ane
6. Le tango du gardien de phare
7. Le marché aux épices
8. Zapping
9. Morceau Choisi
10. Foggy night à la transat
11. La démarche du canard
12. Le chasseur de lunes
13. Le départ de Gulliver
14. La main chaude
15. Okavongo
16. Elzévira
17. El suspiro del moro
18. Allégorie always Albert
19. La baleine mimétique
20. Le bar de l'entracte
21. Mezzanine pour un suspense
22. White Spirit
23. Gena et John
24. "L'Emile"
25. Berceuse pour deux jumelles
26. Clepsydre
27. Wim
28. Happy End
Jean-Louis Mechali - drums
Paul Rogers - double bass
Elton Dean - saxello (on 4 tracks)
Sophia Domancich - piano
Jean-Marc Larché - sax
Philippe Sellam - sax
Jef Sicard - sax
Jacques Di Donato - clarinet
Jean-François Canapé - trumpet
Michel Godard - tuba
Jean-François Ott - cello
Denis Tuvéri - accordeon
Malo Vallois - guitar
Jacques Labarrière - keyboards
Jean-Jacques Avenel - bass
released as Ciné Club (Quoi De Neuf Docteur 1996 2CD)
Cover of Headless Quartet
2/1997, Headless Quartet, The Vortex, London
1. Nasty... Not Nice
2. Like Bacon
3. Web Of Wyrd
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Alex Maguire - piano
Roberto Bellatalla - double bass
Tony Bianco - drums
released as Elton Dean - Headless Quartet (Culture Press 10/1998 CD)
28/2/1997, Dean/Hopper/Clarke/Knight, Delta Studio,
Chartham, England, sessions for "The Mind In The Trees" CD
1. Leaves On The Line
2. Sank Evan
3. Lightening Up Time
4. Delta Rambling
5. Zep-Tepi
6. Polly's Hottie
7. The Utsk-Kutsk Ostinato
8. For Small Mercis
9. Wurlitzer Jungle
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Francis Knight - keyboards, accordion
Hugh Hopper - bass
Vince Clarke - drums
released as The Mind In The Trees (Blueprint 1998 CD)
22/9/1997, Hugh Hopper & Lisa S. Klossner, Delta Studio,
Chartham, England, session for "Different" and "Cryptids" CD
1. Pack Light
2. And The Rain Falls
3. 20th Year
4. Clouds
5. Strawberry Back
6. Come. Come
7. 20th Year (reprise)
8. Called to Speak
Elton Dean - saxello on 1,2,5, alto sax on 3,4,6-8
tracks 1-7 released on Different (Blueprint 4/1999 CD), track 8 released
on Cryptids (Blueprint 2000 CD)
9/1997-9/1998, Hughscore, Delta, Chartham, England
& Flora Avenue, Seattle, USA, sessions for "Delta Flora" CD
1. Was A Friend
2. Facelift
3. November
4. Ramifications
5. Robohop
6. Remind Me
7. Spacelift
8. Based On
9. Tokitae
Hugh Hopper - bass
Elaine Di Falco - electric piano, accordion, organ, synthesizers, vocals
Fred Chalenor - bass, guitar
Tucker Martine - drums, percussion
with:
Craig Flory - tenor sax
Chrystelle Blanc-Lanaute - flute
Jon Hyde - steelguitar
Elton Dean - alto sax
Dave Carter - trumpet
Robert Jarvis - trombone
released as Delta Flora (Cuneiform 5/1999 CD)
Elton in the studio circa 1998 (from CD insert)
15/11/1997, Elton Dean's Newsense, The Purcell
Room, London
1. Pour l'Année
2. Ruddfish Dish (aka Fara)
3. Dirty Licks
4. Three Forty (aka Fall In Free)
5. Bigger Boundaries
6. Allez Ali
7. Snap, Crackle And Pop
8. Oldroydean Prayerdance
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Roswell Rudd - trombone
Annie Whitehead - trombone
Paul Rutherford - trombone
Jim Dvorak - trumpet
Alex Maguire - piano
Roberto Bellatalla - double bass
Marcio Mattos - cello
Mark Sanders - drums
released as Elton Dean's Newsense (SLAM 1998 CD)
28/1/1998, Lady June, Musart, London, sessions for
"Rebela" CD
1. Art School
Bob Loveday - violin
Graham Clark - violins
Jim Dvorak - trumpet
Elton Dean - sax
Robbie T - keyboard
Mark Hewins - programming, guitar
Shyamal Maitra - percussion
Paul Bhattacharjee, Galen Ayers & Hanna Hewins - crowd
More tracks to come...
unreleased recording
Cover of Into The Nierika
4/3/1998, Elton Dean Trio, Musart, London, sessions
for "Into The Nierika" CD
1. Following Through
2. To Rahel And Back
3. Growing the Light
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Roberto Bellatalla - double bass
Mark Sanders - drums
released as Into The Nierika (Blueprint 8/1998 CD)
9/8/1998, 23/3/1999, Dean/Baker/Hewins/Sanders, Musart,
London, sessions
1. Reel Welders
2. Soldering On
3. Moorsong
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Mark Hewins - guitar
Fred T. Baker - bass on 1,2
Mark Sanders - drums, percussion on 1,2
released on Moorsong (Cuneiform 2001 CD)
29/1/1999, Elton Dean/Howard Riley, The Holywell Music Room, Oxford
1. One to one
2. Spires
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Howard Riley - piano
released on One Two One (SLAM 2000 CD)
20/2/1999, Dean/Baker/Maguire/Genockey, Stoke Newington, London,
sessions
1. John's Fragment
2. Willy the Knee
3. Baker's Treat
4. Bedrock Ruse
5. Full Fathom Five
Elton Dean - alto sax. saxello
Fred T. Baker - bass
Alex Maguire - piano, organ
Liam Genockey - drums, percussion
released on Moorsong (Cuneiform 2001 CD)
22/6/1999, Roswell Rudd, Ferber Studio A, Paris, sessions for "Broad Strokes" CD
1. Coming on the Hudson
Steve Lacy - soprano sax
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
John Betsch - drums
Jean-Jacques Avenel - bass
Roswell Rudd - trombone
released on Broad Strokes (Knitting Factory 2000 CD)
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