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We'll finish out Month 11 with a 89th birthday mention for one of those undersung players everyone has heard, yet whom almost no one knows by their actual given name.
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He was a giant of British Jazz who began in the 1950s and branched off into his own groups -- as well as a ton of session work -- in the mid 1960s.
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His horn found its way into a bunch of films and famous records over the decades: if you know the John Martyn classic song "Solid Air," then you know Tony Coe, who shimmers on tenor in a way that takes five minutes that was already bliss into another territory altogether.
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And don't get me started on his seminal solo records like 1976's masterpiece Zeitgeist, possibly my favorite Brit Jazz platter of all times.
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Then there's this group he and keys whiz Tony Hymas (yes that Tony Hymas, who you might know from Jeff Beck's fusion stuff) started in the 1990s, that ran for a few records and tours.
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This aggregation was called The Lonely Bears and there isn't much live evidence of them in action, although they did play at several years of EuroJazz festivals and such.
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But wait! There is one satellite TV thing from 1992 that shows Coe & Co. in their full fetter... here, wanna check it out?
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The Lonely Bears
Deutsches Jazz Festival
Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks
Frankfurt, Germany
10.30.1992
01 March Past 29 145 749 B
02 Quanah Parker
03 Kill King Rat
04 Entre Le Tigre et L'Euphrate
05 Dancing for the Elders
Total time: 45:26
Tony Coe - tenor & soprano saxophones
Tony Hymas - keyboards
Hugh Burns - guitar
Terry Bozzio - drums
audio from a European satellite TV broadcast
extracted, tracked & remastered by EN, January 2023
262 MB FLAC/direct link
262 MB FLAC/direct link
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That concludes November. I'll be back soon to begin to close out 2023 with another December to remember.
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Do get after these Lonely Bears though, which all you Fusion Fiends out there will get into I am sure. And whilst you do, remember its main architect Tony Coe, who departed this plane about 8 months ago... but who could blow fasho, don'tcha know? Consider it a lesson in Coe Ed Sax!--J.