{"id":8636,"date":"2012-07-12T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:42:57","slug":"lol-coxhill-1932-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/lol-coxhill-1932-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Lol Coxhill (1932-2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talking over Skype with friend Allen Fisher in Hereford, I learned the sad news of Lol Coxhill’s passing. Lol & his music were among the great delights over my\u00a0years\u00a0in London during the seventies & early eighties. Below, the opening paras of the Guardian’s<\/strong> obit. You can read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lol Coxhill at the London Jazz Festival in\u00a02006. Photograph: Howard Denner\/Getty<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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The saxophonist Lol Coxhill, who has died aged 79, was one of\u00a0the\u00a0great characters of\u00a0British music \u2013 generous, gifted and amiably eccentric. He\u00a0had long been a\u00a0stalwart of the European\u00a0jazz<\/a>\u00a0and improvised music scene, but he reached all kinds through his collaborations with a wide range of music \u2013 Afro-Cuban, R&B, soul, progressive, punk, minimalist, electronic and beyond \u2013 while remaining recognisably himself.<\/p>\n

He achieved fame of sorts in the early 1970s with the crew of musicians surrounding the former Soft Machine songwriter Kevin Ayers, whose band the Whole World included the contemporary composer\u00a0David Bedford<\/a>\u00a0and the teenage prodigy Mike Oldfield. Coxhill would turn up in all kinds of\u00a0situations \u2013 jam sessions, improv nights and playing solo soprano saxophone by Hungerford bridge on the Thames. (He is thought to be the main inspiration for Real Good for Free,\u00a0Joni Mitchell’s moving paean to buskers<\/a>, though she changed the instrument played by her hero from sax to clarinet.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Talking over Skype with friend Allen Fisher in Hereford, I learned the sad news of Lol Coxhill’s passing. Lol & his music were among the great delights over my\u00a0years\u00a0in London during the seventies &...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8644,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions\/8644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}