Jazz Articles about Lol Coxhill

Lol Coxhill: Digswell Duets (1978)

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

You'll have to forgive me here if I toot Lol Coxhill's horn, because he certainly toots it just fine on his own. Saxophonist Coxhill is an extremely versatile player who has played in settings ranging from punk rock to abstract free improvisation. His sense of melody and time are particularly distinctive, drawing more heavily from the jazz tradition than many of his fellow British free improvisers. This recording marks an unusual pairing of duet partners: Simon Emmerson, an electronic artist ...

Lol Coxhill: Alone And Together

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2000

Alone and Together is a new release from the legendary British saxophonist Lol Coxhill featuring a series of solo performances and duets with either cellist Marcio Mattos or violinist Stevie Wishart. The material presented here spans 1991 through 1999 and was recorded live at various venues.

A master improviser and one of the leading exponents of the European free improv/modern jazz scene, Coxhill collaborates with violinist Stevie Wishart on three pieces yet on the piece titled, “Second Rare Duet”, Ms ...

Lol Coxhill: Alone and Together

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1999

Lol Coxhill is little-known but he is actually one of the first saxophonists to perform solo, and this disc contains the twenty-two minute “Festival Solo," a piece for soprano - Coxhill's saxophone of choice - that shows his range, imagination, and architectonic power.

But there is much more here as well. The discs begins with Coxhill on sopranino, or Eb soprano saxophone, playing a solo and three duets with Stevie Wishart, who plays violin on two and hurdy-gurdy on the ...

Lol Coxhill / Veryan Weston: Boundless

by Robert Spencer
July 1, 1998

Lol Coxhill is quite the case, eh wot? He can gibber on his soprano saxophone with the best of them (cf. the brief opener, “School Test"), but he can also play acidly lyrical lines (which may be why the second track is named “Slurry," which as far as I know is the gooey sweet stuff that ultimately hardens into jelly beans). Coxhill is an original who can play inside and out, as this collaboration with pianist Weston amply illustrates.

Weston ...