Lol Coxhill

Lol Coxhill (1932-2012) was an English saxophonist, born in Portsmouth, who played soprano and sopranino saxophone and worked mostly in free improvisation. He grew up in Aylesbury and trained as a bookbinder before turning to music. He was known for unaccompanied soprano playing, often on the streets of London, and he worked across improvised music, jazz, rock and folk. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Coxhill played with Carol Grimes and Delivery and with Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, appearing on Ayers's Shooting at the Moon (1970).