Elton Dean has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 10 February 2015. Elton Dean's music has been featured on 10 episodes.

Elton Dean (born October 28, 1945, Nottingham, United Kingdom; died February 8, 2006) was a jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello (a variant of the soprano saxophone) and occasionally keyboard. Dean's playing style could be equally tonal or atonal; his forays into rock with Soft Machine feature a pioneering use of extreme amplification (particularly the live period between albums Third and Fourth).

From 1966-67, Dean was a member of the band Bluesology, led by Long John Baldry. The band's pianist,…