lol coxhill frog dance impetus 28407 2 lp soundtrack
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uk issue. like-new condition.===================================================== Lowen Coxhill, generally known as Lol Coxhill (born September 19, 1932, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England), is a free improvising saxophonist. He usually plays the soprano or sopranino saxophones. Coxhill has collaborated with many other musicians during his career, including Kevin Ayers, Steve Miller (ex Caravan), Mike Oldfield, Morgan Fisher (ex Mott the Hoople), Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, The Dedication Orchestra, punk rock group The Damned, Hugh Metcalfe, Derek Bailey and street theatre performance art group Welfare State. For many years Lol was compere and occasional performer at the Bracknell Jazz Festival, renowned as a raconteur as well as a musician, indeed it was following a performance at Bracknell that he recorded the legendary monologue Murder in the Air. [edit] Partial discography [edit] Solo or as principal performer * Ear of the Beholder (Dandelion Records) * Toverbal Sweet (Mushroom Records) * Fleas In Custard (with G F Fitzgerald (guitar)) (Caroline Records) * Miller/Coxhill (with Steve Miller (piano)) (Caroline Records) * The Story So Far...Oh Really! (with Steve Miller (credited as Stephen Miller) (piano)) (Caroline Records) * Welfare State/Lol Coxhill (with Welfare State Theatre Group) (Caroline Records) * "Murder In The Air" (12" Single) * Diverse (Ogun Records) * The Joy of Paranoia (Ogun Records) * Frogdance (soundtrack to Channel 4 TV production) * The Promenaders (with miscellaneous other free-improvisers, busking on Brighton seafront)(Y Records) * Digswell Duets (Random Radar Records) * French Gigs (with Fred Frith) (A.A.A. Records) * Three Blokes (FMP[1] Records) * The Dunois Solos (Nato) * The Hollywell Concert (SLAM) * "The Inimitable" (Chabada - 10" LP) * "Before My Time" (Chabada - 10" LP) [edit] Guest appearances Coxhill also appears as a 'guest' musician on recordings including * Shooting at the Moon by Kevin Ayers (1970) * No Roses by Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band (1971) * 1984 by Hugh Hopper (1973) * The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories by Kevin Ayers (1974) * Music for Pleasure by The Damned (1977) * The Death of Imagination by Penny Rimbaud (1995, Red Herring Records) * Boo by Juliet Lawson (1972, Sovereign Records) * Tokoloshe Man by John Kongos * Lol Coxhill & Totsuzen Danball Wax Records TKCA-30119 Shooting at the Moon (album) [edit] Television and film appearances * A documentary about Lol Coxhill called Frogdance was shown by Channel 4 in 1987. * He appeared as a butler in Sally Potter's 1992 film version of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando". * He had a cameo in the TV detective series Strangers which was a precursor to the series Bulman He appears in the season five episode A Much Underestimated Man. * He played the part of a priest in the 1986 Derek Jarman film of Caravaggio (film).
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