Elton Dean has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 10 February 2015. Songs played include Seven For Lee, To The Sun and Part: The Last.

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,…