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The Soft Machine Legacy: Live in Zaandam |
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August 29, 2005 | Canterbury prog/jazz-rock |
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| Moonjune Records | ||
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| Playing Time | Cat. N° | |
| 51:19 | MJR006 | |
| Review by | Rating | |
| Christoph | 7,5/10 | |
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For the highly aged among us, this legacy is of course Soft Machine’s, the British institution that pioneered in jazz-rock and Canterbury prog since 1966. A legendary band that included Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Jack Bruce and Allan Holdsworth among many others. On last May 10, four elder friends gathered in De Kade in Zaandam to pay tribute to an impressive legacy. Elton Dean makes his sax scorch nicely and his Fender Rhodes piano marks the playground with a modest touch. John Marshall plays the drums loosely but accurately. Hugh Hopper’s propulsive bass gives this music an enormous drive! He even introduces a new composition here, ‘1212’, and does so with great aplomb. And John Etheridge has the permission to go bananas on his electric guitar, while never loosing the global frame of the composition out of sight.
This album will hardly win over new fans. But, not familiar with
this repertoire, it gained my interest. Of course the long-living
freak already has this electrifying live set. |
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Elton Dean: alto sax, saxello, Fender Rhodes
piano John Etheridge: electric guitar Hugh Hopper: bass guitar John Marshall: drums |
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Ash (11:39) |
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21 oktober 2005 . |
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