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Alex Coke

Born: November 13, 1953

Alex Coke 
is a Texas tenor saxophonist, flutist, and composer 
based in Austin, Texas and Amsterdam, Netherlands.



An improvisor at heart, his multifarious projects as bandleader include 
Live Action Brass Band, Leadbelly Legacy Band, New
 Texas Swing, a jazz adaptation of Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas In Wales, and the post-bop quintet, Worthy Constituents, a collaboration with longtime partner, pianist, and composer, Rich Harney.

In 2022, along with guitarist Carl Michel, Coke began writing for, performing and recording with the Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet, an outgrowth of a series of driveway concerts he and harpist Elaine Barber began hosting in 2020. The sextet has recorded 3 albums to date on the PlayOn records label The Emissary, Emergence and Situation.