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  • Serial_Apologist
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    • Dec 2010
    • 37559

    Lol Coxhill, the improvising saxophonist and friend of John Peel who (for all you Progrock fans out there) played with Mike Oldfield and The Whole World Band in the early 1970s and could be found busking on Hungerford Bridge and later compering the Bracknell Festival for all its existence, died on 10 July 2012, aged just under 80. Along with the guitarist Derek Bailey he was one of the pioneers of free improvisation anywhere (including in America) mixing with all sorts of musics and adventurous musicians. At the conclusion of an afternoon's commemorations held that Octiober at Cecil Sharpe House in Primrose Hill, the bass player Dave Green played a short CD of Lol singing and playing the old standard "Embraceable You", along with Dave, Michael Garrick, Bruce Turner and Alan Jackson, from what I presume to have been a BBC broadcast, from 1984. Sadly most of those in attendance were making their way out of the premises, and not giving what was being played much attention, so I went over and asked Dave Green about the recording, with the result that he handed me the CD, with just this one number on it, saying I could have it for nothing! I've just been listening to it and marvelling at Lol's performance, in which he sings the lyrics and interposes improvised passages in the gaps. Unfortunately there is no Youtube footage of that performance, but there is of one of Lol performing the same song accompanied by the drummer Roger Turner, and here it is:-

    Filmed by Helen Petts. Lol Coxhill (soprano sax) and Roger Turner (drum set) - 2 old mates having fun at Battersea Arts Centre festival of free improvise...


    The next clip has Lol playing alongside the bassist John Edwards and one-time This Heat drummer Charles Hayward, apparently in somebody's back garden!

    Footage of Lol Coxhill, John Edwards, Charles Hayward.Charles Hayward Recorded Now Available Online.https://www.vimeo.com/ondemand/charleshayward


    And here, Trevor Watts and the pianist Veryan Weston reminiscing about Lol:



    And finally, The Melody Four (of whom there were three!), with Lol alongside pianist Steve Beresford and the great Tony Coe, offering some timely seasonal cheer in this performance in a church in the Netherlands, from 1996:-

    Recorded with my Canon HI8 Camcorder: the 31st of August 1996.Place: a small church in Oostum, a small village in the north of the Netherlands (Holland) duri...


    Enjoy!
    Last edited by Serial_Apologist; 11-12-16, 17:17.

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    • burning dog
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      • Dec 2010
      • 1509

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      • Stanfordian
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        • Dec 2010
        • 9308

        Art Tatum & Ben Webster wth Red Callender & Bill Douglass
        ‘The Album’
        Verve ( 1956)
        Last edited by Stanfordian; 14-12-16, 07:49.

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        • Jazzrook
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          • Mar 2011
          • 3061

          The 'Texas tenorist' Don Wilkerson(1932-86) made several excellent albums for RIVERSIDE & BLUE NOTE in the early 1960s all of which are currently hard to find.
          Here's 'Homesick Blues' from his 1962 BLUE NOTE album 'Preach, Brother!' with Grant Green, Sonny Clark, Butch Warren & Billy Higgins:

          Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.


          JR

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          • Stanfordian
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            • Dec 2010
            • 9308

            Wayne Shorter with James Spaulding, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers & Tony Williams
            ‘The Soothsayer’
            Blue Note (1965)

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            • Serial_Apologist
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              • Dec 2010
              • 37559

              Thanks v much to BD in #467 for linking to part 1 of Don Cherry's 'Complete Communion', which has been around for a long time now, but for some embarrassing reason I have never listened to.

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              • Stanfordian
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                • Dec 2010
                • 9308

                Wayne Shorter with James Spaulding, Freddie Hubbard,
                McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers & Tony Williams

                ‘The Soothsayer’
                Blue Note (1965)

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                • Beef Oven!
                  Ex-member
                  • Sep 2013
                  • 18147

                  Sade - Promise

                  Just chose this from my shelves, at random.

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                  • Stanfordian
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                    • Dec 2010
                    • 9308

                    Ike Quebec with Kenny Burrell, Wendell Marshall, Willie Bobo & Garvin Masseaux
                    ‘Bossa Nova Soul Samba’
                    Blue Note (1962)

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                    • Stanfordian
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                      • Dec 2010
                      • 9308

                      Wayne Shorter with Curtis Fuller, James Spaulding, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Joe Chambers
                      ‘Schizophrenia’
                      Blue Note (1967)

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                      • Lat-Literal
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                        • Aug 2015
                        • 6983

                        Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus and Lucy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zypc_LhnM

                        Mabel Scott - Boogie Woogie Santa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90cHyxx_OBE

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                        • Quarky
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                          • Dec 2010
                          • 2655

                          Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                          Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus and Lucy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zypc_LhnM

                          Mabel Scott - Boogie Woogie Santa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90cHyxx_OBE

                          And a merry Christmas to you, Lat-Lit::
                          Classic Mood Experience The best masterpieces ever recorded in the music history.Join our YT: http://www.youtube.com/user/classicmoodexpJoin our Google +: ht...

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                          • Lat-Literal
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                            • Aug 2015
                            • 6983

                            Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                            And a merry Christmas to you, Lat-Lit::
                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM6LyEu7kgY
                            Thank you very much - and I did enjoy that clip.

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                            • Serial_Apologist
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                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37559

                              Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                              Thank you very much - and I did enjoy that clip.
                              Is a clip joint a place to go to access youtube links while at the same time smoking naughty African Woodbines?

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                              • Jazzrook
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                                • Mar 2011
                                • 3061

                                Sun Ra Arkestra in 1989:

                                Sun Ra - Night Music 1989(includes Retrospective and Face The Music, no outro)


                                JR

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