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Lol Coxhill / Charles Hayward / Hugh Hopper / Orphy Robinson: Clear Frame
by Nic Jones
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 ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill: More Together Than Alone
by AAJ Italy Staff
È sempre molto difficile recensire un lavoro di Lol Coxhill, uno dei più straordinari sopranisti di tutti i tempi, ma anche tra i maggiori improvvisatori radicali della storia del jazz e non solo. Anche stavolta, come spesso gli accade (clicca qui per leggere la recensione di un suo disco in duo con Veryan Weston), Coxhill presenta un CD che include alcune registrazioni provenienti da occasionali performance in locali londinesi, in questo caso con partner di volta in volta diversi e, ...
Continue ReadingSteve Miller / Lol Coxhill: "The Story So Far..." "...Oh Really?"
by John Kelman
Amidst the artists commonly associated with the British Canterbury scene, pianist Steve Miller and saxophonist Lol Coxhill undeservedly receive some of the least attention. Miller, brother of better-known guitarist Phil (Hatfield and the North, National Health), passed away in 1998 with only a small recorded legacy including stints with Caravan and the pre-Hatfield group Delivery. Coxhill's is the larger discography, including recordings with punksters The Damned, bluesman Alexis Korner and avant-gardist Fred Frith. Miller and Coxhill's two early 1970s collaborations ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill: More Together Than Alone
by Nic Jones
In an ideal world Lol Coxhill would be far more widely celebrated than he is, and even in the world as it is he's a soprano saxophonist with an instrumental vocabulary every bit as rich and distinctive as that of the late Steve Lacy. Equally to his credit is the fact that he has recorded in a variety of settings both within improvised music and outside of it, the latter including recordings with the British band Delivery over thirty years ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill & Veryan Weston: Worms Organising Archdukes
by Glenn Astarita
Lol Coxhill (sax) and Veryan Weston (piano) have been performing since the '70s amid their respective involvement in the British free-improvisational scene. These five pieces represent digitally recorded concert performances culled from the duo’s stints in England, Holland and Belgium between 2000 and 2001.
Needless to say, there’s a certain magic that permeates this outing, as the duo’s intuitive exchanges come as no surprise. Essentially, they methodically reconfigure motifs, amid counterbalancing statements and a great deal of ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill: Spectral Soprano
by Mark Corroto
To describe Lol Coxhill as an eccentric English improviser would be redundant, maybe redundant times two. The saxophonist known for his wicked sense of musical humor is a true original voice. These two discs contain 29 tracks, over two hours of music recorded between 1954 and 1999.
Compiled by the artist, these tracks take in the breadth of his career. The early work finds some hauntingly beautiful music, such as his straight take on “Autumn In New ...
Continue ReadingLol Coxhill: Spectral Soprano
by AAJ Staff
Free improvisers often receive criticism because they don't (or choose not to) play within other contexts. Lol Coxhill sets the record straight on Spectral Soprano, a collection of pieces that span a very broad range of styles from '54 through the late '90s. Coxhill has had his fingers in everyone's pie at one time or another, and this 2-disc set testifies to his abundant curiosity. The thick sheaf of liner notes and photos provides a loose roadmap to the high ...
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