Lol Coxhill

Career

Coxhill learned the saxophone in private lessons and completed a bookbinder training. He first played in amateur bands rhythm and blues and became a professional musician in 1954. He then worked as well with Tubby Hayes, Joe Harriott and Mose Allison as in the Blue area continue with Otis Spann, Steve Miller Champion Jack Dupree, Lowell Fulson, Rufus Thomas and Alexis Korner. In addition, he used solo performances and worked since the mid- 1970s, increasingly with musicians like Harry Miller, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Stan Tracey, Franz Koglmann or Achim Knispel.

In the early 1980s he worked in the trio The Melody Four with Steve Beresford and Tony Coe, and later with the trio The Recedents and the big formations Before My Time and Louis Moholos Dedication Orchestra. In addition, the duo emerged with Pat Thomas, Misha Mengelberg or Veryan Weston. He also made street theater and participated in the performance scene as well as in films such as Frog Dance, Sally Potter's Orlando or Caravaggio. In addition Coxhill played with the punk band The Damned and worked in projects of Penny Rimbaud, Morgan Fisher and Hugh Hopper and as a guest musician with techno bands like Ultramarine or 46000 Fibres with. His Digswell Duets ( with Simon Emmerson and Veryan Weston ) were added to the list of " 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening )" by The Wire 1998. 2013 appeared posthumously the rehearsed with Michel Doneda album Sitting on Your Stairs ( Emanem ).