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Lowen Coxhill, almost universally known as Lol Coxhill (born September 19, 1932, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England) is a free improvising saxophonist. He usually plays the soprano or sopranino sax.

Lol Coxhill pictured at the Red Rose club, Finsbury park, London 1991

Coxhill has collaborated with many other musicians during his career, including Kevin Ayers, Steven Miller , Mike Oldfield, Morgan Fisher (ex Mott The Hoople), Chris McGregor 's Brotherhood of Breath , punk rock group The Damned, Derek Bailey, street theatre performance art group Welfare State to name but a few.

Discography

• The Ear Of The Beholder ( Dandelion Records )
• Toverball Sweet (Dandelion Records)
• Fleas In Custard ( Caroline RecordsCaroline Records was a subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Records label during the early to mid 1970s. The label specialised in putting out budget price LPs by mainly progressive artists generally not considered to have a great deal of 'mainstream' or)
• Miller/Coxhill (Caroline Records)
• Welfare State/Lol Coxhill (Caroline Records)
• Murder In The Air (12" Single)
• Diverse ( Ogun Records )
• The Joy Of Paranoia (Ogun Records)
• Frogdance
• The Promenaders (Y Records)

Coxhill also appears as a 'guest' musician on recordings including

• Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned (1977)
• The Death of Imagination by Penny RimbaudJeremy John Ratter (born 8th June 1943, Northwood, Middlesex, England) is better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud . He is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art group EXIT and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with S (1995, Red Herring Records )

A documentary about Lol Coxhill called Frogdance was shown by Channel 4Channel 4 is a television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television), launched on November 2, 1982. Like the BBC, it has a public service remit and is operated by a non-profit corporation, Channel 4 Television Corporation. Unlike the BBC, in 19871987 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events January January 1 Nunavut's capital changes it name to Iqaluit from Frobisher Bay. January 3 Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. January 4 An Amtrak train.