Lowen Coxhill, almost universally known as Lol Coxhill, born September 19, 1932, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, is a free improvising saxophonist. He usually plays the soprano or sopranino sax. September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... This article is about the English city of Portsmouth. ... Hampshire (abbr. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste of the musicians involved, and not in any particular style. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument. ... An E-flat sopranino saxophone (right). ...

Lol Coxhill pictured at the Red Rose Club, Finsbury Park, London, 1991

Coxhill has collaborated with many other musicians during his career, including Kevin Ayers, Steven Miller, Mike Oldfield, Morgan Fisher (ex Mott The Hoople), Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, The Dedication Orchestra, punk rock group The Damned, Derek Bailey and street theatre performance art group Welfare State. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Finsbury Park is a place in London, England, at the junction of the London Boroughs of Islington, Haringey and Hackney. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Kevin Ayers (born August 16, 1945) is a British rock singer from Canterbury, England. ... Mike Oldfield on the album cover of Amarok (1990) Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends rock or progressive rock, ethnic or world music, and classical music. ... Mott the Hoople were a popular 1970s British rock and roll band that maintained a large audience without ever achieving mainstream success. ... Christopher McGregor (24 December 1936 – 26 May 1990), was a South African pianist, bandleader and composer. ... The Dedication Orchestra is a jazz ensemble and features Alan Skidmore, Radu Malfatti, and many others, including Keith Tippett on piano, Louis Moholo on drums and with Julie Tippetts on vocals. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... This article is about the music group. ... Derek Bailey (born January 29, 1932) is a free improvising avant garde guitarist. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ...

Discography

• The Ear Of The Beholder (Dandelion Records)
• Toverball Sweet (Dandelion Records)
• Fleas In Custard (Caroline Records)
• Miller/Coxhill (Caroline Records)
• Welfare State/Lol Coxhill (Caroline Records)
• Murder In The Air (12" Single)
• Diverse (Ogun Records)
• The Joy Of Paranoia (Ogun Records)
• Frogdance
• The Promenaders (Y Records)
• Digswell Duets (Random Radar Records)
• The Story So Far...Oh Really! (Caroline Records)
• French Gigs (A.A.A. Records)
• Three Blokes (FMP Records)
• The Dunois Solos
• The Hollywell Concert (SLAM)
• The Inimitable (Chabada - 12" single)
• Before My Time (Chabada - 12" single)

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Guest appearances

Coxhill also appears as a 'guest' musician on recordings including

• Music for Pleasure by The Damned (1977)
• The Death of Imagination by Penny Rimbaud (1995, Red Herring Records)

A documentary about Lol Coxhill called Frogdance was shown by Channel 4 in 1987. Music for Pleasure is the second album by the punk rock band The Damned. ... This article is about the music group. ... Penny Rimbaud circa 1977 Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943, Northwood, Middlesex, England), better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art group EXIT and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He appeared as a butler in Sally Potter's 1992 film version of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando". Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author and feminist, who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ...