7 February 2013

ELTON DEAN - 2 Quartets: London 1992 + 1997


It took me a while, but finally here are two amazing cassette recordings courtesy of Andy, posted previously in Contributions section. Earlier one from 1992 can be seen as alternative version of Elton Dean / Howard Riley Quartet, a regular team of 90's, also posted here in the meantime by Andy himself. Riley & Dean photo comes from the booklet of their duo album "One To One" (Slam Productions 1999) and was taken by George Haslam.

ELTON DEAN - alto sax & saxello
HOWARD RiLEY - piano
PAUL ROGERS - bass
TONY LEViN - drums

1. improvisation  - 55:50 + appl.

Rumours, London, 28 February 1992  (Riley on a very ropy old piano)



Second and more 'feverish' piece from 1997 is by one-off grouping - a rare opportunity to hear Elton with Veryan Weston, and suprisingly (as I found when adding tags) also first IS post including this prodigious British pianist and improviser. Thank you for being there and being here, Andy!

ELTON DEAN - saxello
VERYAN WESTON - piano
MARCiO MATTOS - cello
TONY LEViN - drums

1. improvisation  - 17:50 + appl.

Vortex, London, 23 February, 1997


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18 comments:

  1. miloo27 February 2013 at 21:12:00 CET

    Rumours 1992 - flac
    Mega
    Rapidshare
    uloz.to

    Vortex 1997 - flac
    Mega
    Rapidshare

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  2. Andy7 February 2013 at 21:45:00 CET

    Thanks Miloo. Nice job.

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  3. Rupert7 February 2013 at 22:12:00 CET

    Andy, if that's you from Northick Park, LMC etc please google me + Stride and email me.
    Rupert

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  4. Andy7 February 2013 at 22:57:00 CET

    Hi Rupert. I'm not who you think I might be.

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  5. softnucleus7 February 2013 at 23:02:00 CET

    Elton lives! Many, many thanks for these gems, guys!

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  6. Anonymous7 February 2013 at 23:16:00 CET

    thanks for replying andy. weird to find two cassette-weilding lol coxhill and elton dean lovers! thanks for the music, and for replying.
    Rupert

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  7. Count Bozo8 February 2013 at 03:06:00 CET

    Fantastic stuff! Andy is the guy history will know as being at the coolest places at the hippest times!

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  8. Nick8 February 2013 at 03:21:00 CET

    You're spoiling us, Miloo and Andy.

    That's a lovely picture of Tony Levin too.

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  9. softnucleus8 February 2013 at 17:02:00 CET

    Rumours 1992: the continuous performance includes three pieces:
    00:00-15:22 Turn Out The Stars (Bill Evans)
    15:22-39:30 Unknown (impro?)
    39:30-55:50 Darn That Dream (Eddie DeLange/Jimmy Van Heusen)

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  10. Ewan9 February 2013 at 05:31:00 CET

    Hi - I don't suppose there's any trick to getting the download from Mega without having to download Chrome?

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  11. Wallofsound9 February 2013 at 09:11:00 CET

    I've really enjoyed these. Nice to remember Tony and Elton this way.

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  12. vilstef10 February 2013 at 04:02:00 CET

    Thanks for these. I've always been a bit curious about the musician who involuntarily bestowed half his name on Elton John.

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  13. JC11 February 2013 at 17:24:00 CET

    Thanks for these. Have not been able to get the Vortex set for days due to "File owner's public traffic exhausted", which had not happened with anything else here for me. Mega seems to require downloading a bunch of crap to get a file. Not worth blowing up a computer over.

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  14. wightdj12 February 2013 at 05:57:00 CET

    I've been checking RS links daily, always get "File owner's public traffic exhausted". I removed Chrome after several disasters. That's a strange requirement for Mega. Sure would appreciate any other DL option.

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  15. miloo212 February 2013 at 09:32:00 CET

    Sorry men, I haven't been here for a couple of days - working now on third DL option for Vortex 1997. As I got free account on RS, daily limit for sharing my files there is only 1GB and renews at midnight GMT.

    @softnucleus - thanks for your effort with recognizing tunes. I was never very good with this...

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  16. miloo212 February 2013 at 11:06:00 CET

    Vortex 1997 at Uloz.to

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  17. JC12 February 2013 at 15:44:00 CET

    Many thanks Miloo (and Andy). The latest option seems to work (confusing esp. for the Anglais reader, but at least seems not to push any viruses). I think I have Chrome (unused), so I'm not sure Mega is actually pushing a real Chrome. The almighty dollar at issue again...

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  18. miloo212 February 2013 at 22:14:00 CET

    JC, for next time at Uloz.to - there is language option at topmost bar, right side - small CZ flag, where you can switch to English. I guess not the clearest solution, but now you know that Stáhnout in Czech means Download, right?

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