Jazz Articles about Lol Coxhill

Steve Arguelles: Here

by Vincenzo Roggero
November 27, 2023

In che modo ci si approccia ad una registrazione di solo batteria, se sei un batterista che non crede negli assoli di batteria? Su questa domanda le note di copertina argomentano in modo brillante, lucido, esaustivo. Il musicista in questione è Steve Arguelles veterano della più vivace scena britannica, membro fondatore dei fondamentali Loose Tubes e Human Chain, collaboratore di musicisti come Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, Hugh Masekela, Chris McGregor. La registrazione avviene nella chiesa luterana di ...

Lol Coxhill / Enzo Rocco: Fine Tuning - The Gradisca Concert

by Glenn Astarita
June 4, 2011

There are no hard and fast rules that suggest improvised music cannot be a congenial undertaking. Free expressionism should not always be engineered upon overly cerebral formats and ideologies, contrary to popular belief. Fabled saxophonist Lol Coxhill and prominent Italian guitarist Enzo Rocco conjure the best of both worlds throughout this amiable set, recorded live at a festival in Italy. For decades, Coxhill has been a staple within the British free-jazz movement, yet is a supremely versatile artist ...

Lol Coxhill - Roger Turner: Success with Your Dog

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 14, 2011

Lol Coxhill, monumento del free europeo, e Roger Turner, percussionista tra i più accreditati del panorama radicale (collaborazioni con Elton Dean, Alan Silva, Derek Bailey, Toshinori Kondo, Evan Parker, Tom Cora, Keith Rowe, Cecil Taylor ecc.) sono amici di lunga data. Si conoscono dall'inizio degli anni Settanta, periodo in cui il “Bald Soprano" si divideva tra la scena blues e progressive (Delivery e i Whole World di Kevin Ayers), i primi exploit di una, oggi, gloriosa carriera solistica (è del ...

Lol Coxhill / Roger Turner: Success With Your Dog

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 14, 2011

Listening to soprano saxophonist, Lol Coxhill on Success With Your Dog, it is tempting to dwell on the thought that Coxhill pushes the straight horn further, much further, than the late Steve Lacy. It is, of course, natural. Coxhill emerged around the same time as Lacy, and both men came long after Sidney Bechet, and the man who sent them on their journey of musical discovery, John Coltrane. By this time, both men's paths had been made clear, and in ...

Lol Coxhill and Roger Turner: Success with your Dog

by John Eyles
November 28, 2010

Saxophonist Lol Coxhill and drummer Roger Turner go back a long way. They first played together in the early '70s and ever since they have come together regularly in a variety of settings, including The Recedents, their trio with guitarist Mike Cooper. Recently, they have most often played as a duo, and remarkably, Success with your Dog is their first release as a duo; for that reason, it is a welcome arrival. Three of its tracks date from a 2003 ...

Lol Coxhill: From Whichford Hill

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 25, 2008

L'Oxford Jazz Master Series, di cui questo disco fa parte, è un progetto concepito nel 2005 per ospitare grandi esponenti della musica improvvisata britannica e non (tra gli italiani c'è Stefano Pastor) nella Holywell Music Room di Oxford, rinomata nel mondo per la sua perfetta acustica. La serie di concerti è stata inaugurata nel febbraio 2006 da Evan Parker assieme al gruppo base, costituito dal sax baritono George Haslam, dal pianista Richard Leigh Harris e dal bassista Steve Hershaw. In ...

Lol Coxhill / Charles Hayward / Hugh Hopper / Orphy Robinson: Clear Frame

by Nic Jones
March 23, 2008

This coming together of Lol Coxhill, Orphy Robinson, Hugh Hopper and Charles Hayward on record is nothing but cause for celebration, especially in view of the fact that Robert Wyatt guests on cornet. The music produced by the group is an amalgam of their disparate musical personalities, which is just as it should be in the cooperative sense.

The chances are that a lot of listener's expectations will be confounded by the music, but in a profound way that's a ...