Tony Coe

Anthony "Tony" George Coe (born November 29, 1934 in Canterbury ) is a British jazz musician (saxophone, clarinet, flute) and composer.

Life

Coe initially worked as a journalist ; he played in the bands of Joe Daniels , Nat Gonella and Al Fairweather , before he worked from 1957 at Humphrey Lyttelton , with whom he was on tour in America in 1959. Together with John Picard he had his own band from 1962 to 1964. Between 1966 and 1969 he was a member of Johnny Dankworth's orchestra , then of the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band . In the early 1970s he performed highly acclaimed original compositions such as "Zeitgeist", worked with his own band and with Kenny Wheeler , the group Matrix and Ian Carrs Nucleus . He later worked with Michael Gibbs , Clark Terry , Neil Ardley , Norma Winstone , Benny Bailey and Peter Herbolzheimer , but also recorded a duo album with Derek Bailey . He also worked with Stan Tracey , Tony Oxley, and Ali Haurand in the 1980s. He also released albums under his own name, with Melody Four and with the Lonely Bears (with Lol Coxhill and Steve Beresford ). He has also participated in projects by Bob Moses , Franz Koglmann / Lee Konitz ( We Thought About Duke , 1995 and O Moon My Pin-Up , 1998) and Annie Whitehead . He continued to write film scores and was also involved as a soloist on the tenor saxophone on the recordings of Henry Mancini's Pink Panther .

In 1995 Coe was the first European jazz musician to be awarded the Jazzpar Prize , and in 1997 the British Jazz Award .

Some Other Autumn ( Hep Records , 1971) with Brian Lemon , Dave Green , Phil Seamen
British-American Blue ( between the lines , 1978) with Roger Kellaway
Canterbury Song ( Hot House , 1988) with Benny Bailey , Horace Parlan , Jimmy Woode , Idris Muhammad
Captain Coe's Famous Racearound ( Storyville , 1995) with Bob Brookmeyer , Steve Argüelles
Blue Jersey (AB, 1995) with Dave Horler , John Horler , Allan Ganley
In Concert (AB, 1997) with John Horler, Malcolm Cheese
Days of Wine and Roses (Zephyr, 1997) with Alan Barnes , Brian Lemon, Dave Cliff , Alan Ganley
Ruby (Zah Zah, 1998) with Brian Dee , Matt Miles , Steven Arguelles
Before the Dawn (Chapter One Records, 2007) with John Horler, Chris Laurence or Alec Dankworth , Trevor Tomkins and Bob Cornford

Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .