Lol Coxhill
George Lowen Coxhill (born 19 September 1932 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England)
was an English free‑improvising saxophonist noted for his soprano and sopranino
work. After buying his first saxophone in 1947, he trained as a bookbinder and
worked in a factory until the mid‑1960s, when he began touring US airbases with
Denzil Bailey’s Afro‑Cubists and the Graham Fleming Combo, later collaborating
with Rufus Thomas, Mose Allison, Otis Spann and Champion Jack Dupree. Coxhill’s
career shifted toward unaccompanied solo work and intimate duets, notably with
pianist Steve Miller and guit...
