Mike Elliott (saxophonist)
| Mike Elliott | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 August 1929 Jamaica |
| Genres | Pop, soul, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1960s–1970s |
| Labels | Ackee, Carrival, Planetone, Pye |
| Associated acts | Eric Allandale, Clem Curtis, The Foundations, Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys, Denzil Dennis, Rico's Combo, Rico Rodriguez, Alan Warner |
Mike Elliott is a saxophonist who was born in Jamaica on 6 August 1929. He played on ska recordings in the early 1960s and on pop and soul music hits in the late 1960s.
Elliott was a member of Rico's Combo who were a house / studio band led by Jamaican trombonist Rico Rodriguez. Besides Rodriguez on Trombone and Elliott on saxophone, the band included another saxophonist Lovett Brown and Jackie Edwards on piano etc. They played on early 1960s Jamaican Ska recordings issued on the Planetone label such as "Hitch & Scramble" (recorded in 1962).
He had also recorded a handful of records under his own name, two of them on the Planetone label in 1963. These two Planetone singles were shared with other artists. His recording "This Love of Mine" appeared on the flip side of Terry Moon's "Moon Man" and it would actually appear again later appear on the Carnival label in 1964 as the flip side to Young Satchmo's "Things Are Getting Better".
He had also been a member of The Cabin Boys, led by Colin Hicks the brother of British rock 'n' roll singer Tommy Steele, and had played with jazz saxophonists Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott.
By 1967 he was a member of the multi-racial English soul group The Foundations who had million selling hits with "Baby, Now That I've Found You" and "Build Me Up Buttercup" etc. At 38 years of age he was the oldest member of the group and was nearly 20 years older than the youngest member of the group 18-year-old Tim Harris. He was part of their three-man brass section playing Tenor Sax alongside fellow Jamaican tenor saxophonist and flautist Pat Burke and Dominican trombonist Eric Allandale. He played on their first three hit singles, "Baby, Now That I've Found You", "Back on My Feet Again" and "Any Old Time (You're Lonely And Sad)". He also played on their PYE debut album "From The Foundations", a live album "Rocking The Foundations" and on three Foundations tracks at a John Peel session in January 1968.
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