Arthur Albert Ellefson (17 April 1932 – 2018)[1] was a Canadian jazz saxophonist who worked in the UK during the 1950s and 1960s.
[2] In 1952, he moved to London where he worked with Carl Barriteau, Allan Ganley, Harry Hayes, Ted Heath, Vic Lewis, and Ronnie Ross.
[1] There was a period of freelance work (including, in October 1968 playing on the track "Savoy Truffle" by The Beatles),[5] before Ellefson left the UK to live in Bermuda and then returned to Canada in 1974.
[2] In 1992, the album As if to Say, credited to Art Ellefson & Jazz Modus, was released on the Sackville label.
[6] According to music writer Jack Batten "his sound seems a direct extension of the old masters... [Coleman] Hawkins and [Ben] Webster and Lucky Thompson, and so is his sing-song lyricism, but the drive and naked passion of his playing comes from later, more beboppy tenor men'.