Lol Coxhill, who died last year, exemplified the sort of celebrated English eccentric artist and free spirit currently being priced and legislated out of existence. Here he is, live in Paris, in one of his final recordings, with his fellow soprano saxophone virtuoso Michael Doneda.
Their opening nineteen minute dialogue buries half-familiar snatches of melody in sonorous sonar scrapes and twinkling star-cloths of winking notes. Coxhill pursued an ongoing, and quietly heroic, struggle to reach an unknown destination, by an eternally uncharted route.
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