Biography of Lol Coxhill

Saxophone maverick Lol Coxhill is a musician who has touched on nearly every area of music over the past half century. In the 1960s he gave up his day job to accompany soul singers like Rufus Thomas; he would sit in with bluesmen Alexis Korner and Champion Jack Dupree; he was signed to John Peel's label Dandelion and played bebop with the likes of Bobby Wellins and Stan Tracey, prog rock with Steve Miller and Kevin Ayers, and dabbled in ska and rocksteady with Rico Rodriquez and Jazz Jamaica. He even toured with the Damned.

Over the years he has also been found playing with assorted avant jazzers, drone rockers and electronic mavericks. You might have seen him busking near the Thames, and seen his old LPs selling for $100 in New York record shops. You might also have heard him playing beautiful, straight-ahead versions of standards.