r.i.p. Hugh Hopper

Bass guitarist Hugh Hopper has died yesterday, at age 64.
Here's a short note on the website of Jazzwise.

Here's a lenghty interview on AAJ.

Hugh Hopper, April 29, 1945 - June 7, 2009

Here's a first upload in tribute, featuring Hopper in the only Soft Machine show I have that is in very good sound. Dean and Hopper are re-united again now, I hope...

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Soft Machine
Donaueschinger Musiktage
Donaueschingen (Germany)
October 17, 1971 (MP2)

Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello, fender rhodes electric piano
Mike Ratledge - organ, fender rhodes electric piano
Hugh Hopper - bass
Phil Howard - drums

1. Gribes-Bloody-Rageous (41:04)

Sound: A
Source: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)