Tony Oxley

born on 15/6/1938 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Tony Oxley

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Tony Oxley

Tony Oxley (born 15 June 1938) is an English free-jazz drummer and one of the founders of Incus Records.

Biography

Tony Oxley was born in Sheffield, England.[1] A self-taught pianist by the age of eight, he first began playing the drums at seventeen. In Sheffield he was taught by well respected local drummer Haydon Cook, who had returned to the city after a long residency, in the 1950s, at Ronnie Scotts in London. While in the Black Watch military band from 1957 to 1960 he studied music theory and improved upon his drumming technique. From 1960 to 1964 he led his own quartet which performed locally in England, and in 1963 he began working with Gavin Bryars and guitarist Derek Bailey in a trio known as Joseph Holbrooke.[2] Oxley moved to London in 1966 and became house drummer at Ronnie Scott's, where he accompanied visiting musicians as Joe Henderson, Lee Konitz, Charlie Mariano, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins and Bill Evans until the early 1970s. He was also a member of various groups led by musicians such as Gordon Beck, Alan Skidmore and Mike Pyne.[1]

In 1969 Oxley appeared on the recording of the later released John McLaughlin album Extrapolation and also formed his own quintet consisting of Derek Bailey, Jeff Clyne, Evan Parker and Kenny Wheeler, releasing the album The Baptised Traveller. Following this album the group was joined by Paul Rutherford on trombone and became a sextet, releasing the 1970 album 4 Compositions for Sextet.[1] That same year Oxley helped found Incus Records along with Bailey and others and also the Musicians Cooperative. He also received a three-month "artist-in-residence" at the Sydney Conservatorium in Australia in 1970.[3] Around this time he joined the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and also got involved with collaborations with Howard Riley. In 1973 he became a tutor at the Jazz Summer School in Barry, South Wales, and in 1974 he formed another group of his own known as Angular Apron. Through the 1980s he worked with various musicians, including Tony Coe and Didier Levallet, also forming his own Celebration Orchestra during the latter half of that decade. Oxley also did extensive touring with Anthony Braxton in 1989, and also began a long-lasting working relationship with Cecil Taylor during this period.[1]

In 1993 he joined an international quartet that included Tomasz Stako, Bobo Stenson, and Anders Jormin, and in 2000 he released the album Triangular Screen with the Tony Oxley Project 1 a trio including with Ivar Grydeland and Tonny Kluften.

Discography

As leader

  • The Baptised Traveller (CBS, 1969)
  • 4 Compositions for Sextet (CBS, 1970)
  • Oxley, Tony (1971). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Ichnos], RCA.
  • Oxley, Tony (1977). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide February Papers], Incus Records.
  • Oxley, Tony (1985). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Live in Berlin].
  • Oxley, Tony (1985). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Tomorrow Is Here], Dossier.
  • The Tony Oxley Quartet (1992). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Tony Oxley Quartet], Incus.
  • Oxley, Tony (1994). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Enchanted Messenger: Live from Berlin Jazz Festival], Soul Note.
  • Tony Oxley Project 1 (2001). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Triangular Screen], Sofa.
  • Oxley, Tony (2007). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide The Advocate], Tzadik Records.

As collaborator

  • Fame, Georgie (1967). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Two Faces of Fame], Columbia Records.
  • Beck, Gordon (1968). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Experiments with Pops], Major Minor Records.
  • Beck, Gordon (1968). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Gyroscope], Morgan Records.
  • McLaughlin, John (1969). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Extrapolation], Polydor Records.
  • Bowie, Lester (1969). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Gittin' to Know You], MPS.
  • Surman, John (1969). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide How Many Clouds Can You See?], Deram Records.
  • Harris, Don Sugarcane (1970). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Keep On Driving], Musidisc.
  • Vangelis (1971). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Dragon], Charly Records.
  • Riley, Howard (1971). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Flight], Turtle Records.
  • Gibbs, Michael (1971). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Michael Gibbs/Tanglewood '63], Dutton Vocalion.
  • Guy, Barry (1972). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Ode], Incus Records.
  • Wheeler, Kenny (1973). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Song for Someone], PSI Records.
  • Oxley, Tony (1975). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide The Tony Oxley Alan Davie Duo], a/l/l.
  • Vangelis (1978). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Hypothesis], Affinity.
  • Coe, Oxley & Co. (1983). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Nutty], hatHUT.
  • Peter Brötzmann Clarinet Project (1984). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Berlin Djungle], Unheard Music Series/Atavistic.
  • Oxley, Tony (1984). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Live at Roccella Jonica], Splasc(h).
  • Rava, Enrico (1984). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide String Band], Soul Note.
  • Guy, Barry (1987). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Zurich Concerts], Intakt.
  • Mancinelli, Augusto (1988). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Extreme], Splasc(h).
  • Taylor, Cecil (1988). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Leaf Palm Hand], FMP.
  • Cecil Taylor, and Corona (1989). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Looking (Berlin Version) Corona], FMP.
  • Braxton, Anthony (1989). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Seven Compositions (Trio)], hatART.
  • Battaglia, Stefano (1990). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Explore], Splasc(h).
  • Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble (1990). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Melancholy], FMP.
  • John Surman: Adventure Playground (ECM, 1991)
  • The Feel Trio (1991). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Looking [Berlin Version]], FMP.
  • Stako, Tomasz (1993). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Bosonossa and Other Ballads], Gowi.
  • The Feel Trio (1993). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Celebrated Blazons], FMP.
  • Battaglia, Stefano (1993). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Sulphur], Splasc(h).
  • Tomasz Stako: Matka Joanna (ECM, 1994)
  • Lindsay Cooper/Trio Trabant a Roma (1994). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide State of Volgograd], FMP.
  • Dixon, Bill (1994). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Vade Mecum], Soul Note.
  • Dixon, Bill (1996). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Vade Mecum II], Soul Note.
  • Tomasz Stako: Leosia (ECM, 1996)
  • Paul Rutherford & Iskra 1912 (1997). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Sequences 72 & 73], Emanem.
  • Oxley, Tony (1997). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Soho Suites], Incus Records.
  • Bley, Paul (1998). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Chaos], Soul Note.
  • Alex, Schlippenbach (1998). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Digger's Harvest], FMP.
  • Jost, Ekkehard (1998). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Some Other Tapes], Fish Records.
  • Joseph Holbrooke Trio (1999). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide '65 (Rehearsal Extract)], Incus Records.
  • Dixon, Bill (2000). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Berlin Abbozzi], FMP.
  • Joseph Holbrooke Trio (2000). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Joseph Holbrooke '98], Incus Records.
  • Dixon, Bill (2000). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Papyrus, Vol. 1], Soul Note.
  • Dixon, Bill (2000). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Papyrus, Vol. 2], Soul Note.
  • Riley, Howard (2000). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Synopsis], Emanem.
  • Riley, Howard (2001). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Overground], Emanem.
  • Taylor, Cecil (2002). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley], Victo.
  • Gratkowski, Frank (2002). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide GratHovOx], Nuscope.
  • Stenson, Bobo (2002). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Rarum, Vol. 8: Selected Recordings], ECM.
  • Surman, John (2004). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Rarum, Vol. 13: Selected Recordings], ECM.
  • Stako, Tomasz. [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Rarum, Vol. 17: Selected Recordings], ECM.
  • Alan Skidmore Quintet (2005). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Once Upon a Time], Dutton Vocalion.
  • Evans, Bill (2006). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Complete February 1972 Paris ORTF Performance], Gambit.
  • Surman, John (2006). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Jazz in Britain 68-69].
  • Joseph Holbrooke Trio (2006). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide The Moat Recordings], Tzadik Records.
  • Scott, Ronnie (2007). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Live at Ronnie Scott's], BMG.
  • Meloni, Orru, Oxley (2010). [Tony Oxley at All Music Guide Improvised Pieces For Trio], Big Round Records.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Car, Ian (2004). The Rough Guide to Jazz, 3rd Edition, p. 601.
  2. Cox, Christop, et al. (2004). Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, p. 257.
  3. Brennan, Gerald E., Tony Oxley Biography.

References

  • Carr, Ian (2004). The Rough Guide to Jazz, 3rd Edition, London: Rough Guides.
  • Cox, Christof (2004). Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, New York: Continuum.
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