Tony Coe
Anthony " Tony" George Coe ( born November 29, 1934 in Canterbury ) is a British jazz musician ( saxophone, clarinet, flute) and composer.
Life
Coe worked as a journalist; he played in the bands of Joe Daniels, Nat Gonella and Al Fairweather, before he worked from 1957 in Humphrey Lyttelton, with whom he was on tour in America in 1959. Together with John Picard he had from 1962 to 1964 his own band. Between 1966 and 1969 he was a member of the orchestra of Johnny Dankworth, then in the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band. In the early 1970s he led highly acclaimed original compositions such as " Zeitgeist " on, working with his own band and with Kenny Wheeler, the group matrix and Ian Carr's Nucleus. Later he worked with Michael Gibbs, Clark Terry, Neil Ardley, Norma Winstone, Benny Bailey and Peter Herbolzheimer, but also played a duo album with Derek Bailey a. In the 1980s he also worked with Stan Tracey, Tony Oxley and with Ali Haurand. Furthermore, he laid before albums under his own name, with Melody Four and with the Lonely Bears ( with Lol Coxhill and Steve Beresford ). He has also participated in projects of Bob Moses, Franz Koglmann / Lee Konitz (We Thought About Duke, 1995 and O Moon My Pin-Up, 1998) and Annie Whitehead. He also wrote film scores and has also been involved as a soloist on the tenor saxophone at the recordings of the music of Henry Mancini's Pink Panther.
1995 Coe became the first European jazz musician with the Jazzpar Prize, in 1997 with the British Jazz Award.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Some Other Autumn (Hep Records, 1971) with Brian Lemon, Dave Green, Phil Seamen
- British-American Blue ( Between the Lines, 1978) with Roger Kellaway
- Canterbury Song ( Hot House, 1988) with Benny Bailey, Horace Parlan, Jimmy Woode, Idris Muhammad
- Blue Jersey (AB, 1995) with Dave Horler, John Horler, Allan Ganley
- In Concert (AB, 1997) with John Horler, Malcolm Cheese
- Days of Wine and Roses ( Zephyr, 1997) with Alan Barnes, Brian Lemon, Dave Cliff, Alan Ganley