Lyn Dobson (born 22 June 1939 in

Bedford Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population was 106,940. Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire and seat of the Borough of Bedford local government district. Bedford was founded at a ford (crossin ...

) is an English musician, noted as a

jazz-rock Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music Music genre, genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, a ...

flautist The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

and

saxophonist The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

. He appeared with

Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were a British rhythm and blues group during the 1960s whose repertoire spanned R&B, Pop music, pop, Rock music, rock and jazz. They were originally the backing band for rock and roll singer Billy Fury. At the ...

and

Manfred Mann Manfred Mann were an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1962. They were named after their keyboardist Manfred Mann (musician), Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The group had two l ...

in the mid-1960s, and then with

Soft Machine Soft Machine are an English Rock music, rock band from Canterbury, Kent. The band were formed in 1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin. Soft Machine were central in the Canterbury scene; they became o ...

and

Keef Hartley Keith "Keef" Hartley (8 April 1944 – 26 November 2011)
was an English drummer and bandleader. He fronted his own b ...

, as well as playing on

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s by

Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. An accomplished acoustic guitarist, Drake signed to Island Records at the age of twenty while still a student at the University of Cambridg ...

and

John Martyn Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 23 studio albums and received frequent critical acclaim. ...

. Dobson played the flute solo on Manfred Mann's " Pretty Flamingo". Dobson also played on a number of sessions for

The Small Faces Small Faces were an English rock band from London, founded in 1965. The group originally consisted of Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston, with Ian McLagan replacing Winston as the band's keyboardist in 1966. The ba ...

, including their '' Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake'' LP, and the track "The Autumn Stone" (released after the group split in 1969 and on which he played the flute), and he performed live with them during 1968. He also subsequently guested on Humble Pie's debut album '' As Safe As Yesterday Is'' (1969), on which he also played

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. He released an album, ''Jam Sandwich'', on Fresh Air Records in 1974. After the 1970s, he worked in theatre, dance, drama, multimedia, music teaching and music therapy.AllMusic biography
/ref> In the 1990s, Dobson recorded two albums with the

Third Ear Band Third Ear Band were a British musical group formed in London during the mid-1960s. Their line-up initially consisted of violin, cello, oboe and percussion. Most of their performances were instrumental and partly improvised. Their records for th ...

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Lyn Dobson performs with Georgie Fame Quartete in Lucerně, Switzerland 1967

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1939 births Living people Musicians from Bedford British jazz saxophonists British male saxophonists British jazz flautists British rock flautists British session musicians British folk rock musicians 21st-century British saxophonists 21st-century British male musicians British male jazz musicians 21st-century British flautists Soft Machine members {{UK-music-bio-stub

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