genre alan wakeman
William Seward Burroughs II ( February 5 , 1914  August 2 , 1997 ) was an American novelist , ___MASK29___ writer , satirist , essayist , painter , and ___MASK57___ performer . Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre , and his influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature . Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas , six collections of short stories and four collections of essays . Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences . He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians , and made many appearances in films . He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee . Soft Machine are an English ___MASK85___ and ___MASK73___ fusion band from Canterbury , named after the book " The Soft Machine " by William S . Burroughs . They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene . Though they achieved little commercial success , they are widely considered by critics to have been very influential in ___MASK85___ music , with " AllMusic " describing them as " one of the more influential bands of their era , and certainly one of the most influential underground ones ." ___MASK73___ fusion ( also known as ___MASK73___ - rock ) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of ___MASK73___ harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk , rock , rhythm and blues , and Latin ___MASK73___ . During this time many ___MASK73___ musicians began experimenting with electric instruments and amplified sound for the first time , as well as electronic effects and synthesizers . Many of the developments during the late 1960s and early 1970s have since become established elements of ___MASK73___ fusion musical practice . ___MASK73___ is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans , United States , in the late 19th and early 20th centuries . Since the 1920s ___MASK73___ age , ___MASK73___ has become recognized as a major form of musical expression . It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles , all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation . ___MASK73___ is characterized by swing and blue notes , call and response vocals , polyrhythms and improvisation . ___MASK73___ has roots in West African cultural and musical expression , and in African - American music traditions including blues and ragtime , as well as European military band music . Although the foundation of ___MASK73___ is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States , different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well . Intellectuals around the world have hailed ___MASK73___ as " one of America ' s original art forms ". The Soft Machine is a 1961 ___MASK31___ by American author William S . Burroughs . It was originally composed using the cut - up technique partly from manuscripts belonging to " The Word Hoard ". It is the first part of " The Nova Trilogy ". AllMusic ( previously known as All ___MASK49___ Guide or AMG ) is an online ___MASK49___ guide service website . It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network . Canterbury (, or ) is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site , which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury , a local ___MASK69___ district of Kent , England . It lies on the River Stour . Alan Wakeman ( born 13 October 1947 , Hammersmith , West London ) is an English saxophonist , known for his work in Soft Machine during 1976 , appearing on the album Softs . He is a cousin of the keyboard player Rick Wakeman . Wakeman started on the clarinet at age 14 and , while at school , played in a band with cousin Rick on piano . He switched to the alto saxophone at 16 , then subsequently to the tenor saxophone ; he also plays soprano saxophone . He joined the Paul Lytton Quartet in 1968 and had his own trio in 1970 ( with Harry Miller on bass ) . He subsequently worked with Graham Collier ( including the albums Songs for My Father and The Day of the Dead ) , Johnny Dankworth and Mike Westbrook ( including playing saxophone and clarinet on the 1975 release Citadel / Room 315 and 1976 ' s Love / Dream and Variations ) . He was also an original member of Alan Gowen ' s band Gilgamesh in 1972 - 3 , but left before Gilgamesh ' s first album . He left Soft Machine in 1976 to join David Essex ' s band , having first worked with him in 1974 on the album David Essex . He also worked further with Westbrook and in the West End , including for the ___MASK20___ , Grease . Richard Christopher " Rick " Wakeman ( born 18 May 1949 ) is an English keyboardist , songwriter , ___MASK44___ and ___MASK91___ presenter , and author . He is best known for being in the ___MASK1___ band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s . The Canterbury scene ( or Canterbury Sound ) is a subgenre or sibling to ___MASK1___ . The term describes a loosely defined style of music created by a number of improvisational musicians , some of whom were based in the city of Canterbury , Kent , England during the late 1960s and early 1970s . ___MASK1___ ( shortened as " prog "; sometimes " art rock ", " classical rock " or " symphonic rock ") is a broad subgenre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s . Initially termed " progressive pop ", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with ___MASK73___ , folk or classical music . Additional elements contributed to its " progressive " label : lyrics were more poetic , technology was harnessed for new sounds , music approached the condition of " art ", and the studio , rather than the stage , became the focus of musical activity , which often involved creating music for listening , not dancing .