(Free Jazz) [CD] Elton Dean, Alan Skidmore, Chris Laurence, John Marshall - El Skid - 2001, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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REM GENRE Jazz
REM DATE 2001
REM DISCID 2C09C204
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.0b2"
CATALOG 0604388306428
PERFORMER "Elton Dean, Alan Skidmore, Chris Laurence, John Marshall"
TITLE "El Skid "
FILE "Elton Dean, Alan Skidmore, Chris Laurence, John Marshall - El Skid.flac" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Dr. Les Mosses "
    PERFORMER "Elton Dean, Alan Skidmore, Chris Laurence, John Marshall"
    ISRC GBBEL0023001
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "First In The Attic"
    PERFORMER "Elton Dean, Alan Skidmore, Chris Laurence, John Marshall"
    ISRC GBBEL0023002
    INDEX 00 08:25:07
    INDEX 01 08:29:40
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Thats For Cha"
    PERFORMER "Elton Dean, Alan Skidmore, Chris Laurence, John Marshall"
    ISRC GBBEL0023003
    INDEX 00 21:09:64
    INDEX 01 21:13:47
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "K And A Blues"
    PERFORMER "Elton Dean, Alan Skidmore, Chris Laurence, John Marshall"
    ISRC GBBEL0023004
    INDEX 00 32:03:00
    INDEX 01 32:06:16

Elton Dean has recorded a lot in the 1970s. Many of these LPs are forgotten gems of Canterbury-style fusion jazz, and they have been resurfacing one by one during the late '90s/early 2000s, thanks to labels like Cuneiform and Voiceprint. The latter reissued El Skid, a 1977 session with saxophonist Alan Skidmore (of Kate Bush fame), acoustic bassist Chris Laurence, and once-Soft Machine alumni drummer John Marshall. This quartet feels like a shared Dean/Skidmore project (something enhanced by the album title). The saxophonists share writing credits equally and take the same room in term of solo space. "Dr. Les Mosses" kicks things into gear with a hot fusion number the likes of Soft Machine circa 4: challenging yet frantically swinging. Skidmore tears open his tenor sax in this one. "First in the Attic" and "Thats for Cha," the two numbers penned by Dean, boil things down to something quieter, leaving room for Laurence to shine. The melody and the rhythm in "Thats for Cha" have a Monk-esque quality (circa Hackensack). "K and A Blues" takes an even more conservative form, a head-solo-head number any post-Parker jazzman could have written. If the compositions are not top quality, the rhythm section works like a charm, and on the strength of the opening track alone, fans of the Canterbury scene will want to hear El Skid. Newcomers to Dean's solo career will have more fun with Just Us from the same era.

Alto Saxophone – Elton Dean
Double Bass – Chris Laurence
Drums – John Marshall
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone (3) – Alan Skidmore