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Remembering Tony Oxley: Combination
He was the drummer on John McLaughlin's debut as leader, Extrapolation (Marmalade Records, 1969), and it was in the milieu of the European jazz avant-garde that he is probably best remembered, collaborating with Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, John Surman, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Barry Guy, Tony Coe, Alan Skidmore ... the list is a long one.
Oxley was admired on both sides of the Atlantic, toggling between dates with the likes of Bill Dixon, Anthony Braxton, Bill Evans and Paul Bley, and European free-jazz royalty such as Tomasz Stańko, Alexander von Schlippenbach and Peter Brötzmann.
This live solo performance from 1991 clocks in at just shy of three minutes, but it gives a tremendous flavor of the freedom and invention with which Oxley played his merry way.
Tony Oxley: June 15, 1938 -December 26, 2023.
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