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The Tony Oxley Quartet Ronnie Scott And The Band Iskra 1912 Howard Riley Trio Tony Oxley Project 1 Coe, Oxley & Co. Rolf Kühn Jazzgroup The Baden-Baden Free Jazz Orchestra The B.I.M.P. Quartet Brötzmann Clarinet Project Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble The Feel Trio Tony Oxley Quintet The Tony Oxley Alan davie Duo Joseph Holbrooke Trio Mark Murphy And His Trio S.O.H. Tony Oxley's Celebration Orchestra Didier Levallet Octet University Jazz Project MOB Tony Oxley / Derek Bailey Quartet

ex The Alan Skidmore Quintet, Tubby Hayes Quartet, The Quartet, Tomasz Stańko Quartet, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Gordon Beck Trio, The Gordon Beck Quartet, European Jazz Ensemble, Giorgio Gaslini Trio, Giorgio Gaslini Ensemble, Kenny Wheeler Big Band

English drummer, percussionist and composer.
Born: 15th June 1938 in Sheffield, England.
Died: 26th December 2023 in Viersen, Germany.
Co-founder of record label [l1264835].

ALBUMS


Tony Oxley
The New World
2023, CD, Album, Discus, Discus
Tony Oxley
Unreleased 1974 - 2016
2022, CD, Album, Discus
Tony Oxley / Alan Davie
Elaboration Of Particulars
2021
Tony Oxley
Beaming
2020, CD, Album, Confront
Cecil Taylor And Tony Oxley
Birdland, Neuburg 2011
2020
Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley
....... Being Astral And All Registers – Power Of Two......
2020
Tony Oxley
A Birthday Tribute - 75 Years
2013, CD, Album, Incus, ,
Free Improvisation
Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley
Ailanthus / Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions Of 2 Root Songs
2010, 2xLP, Ltd, Num, Triple Point Records, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation/Avant-garde Jazz
Sebastiano Meloni, Adriano Orrù, Tony Oxley
Improvised Pieces For Trio
2010, CD, Album, Big Round Records (2)
Conny Bauer* / Gianluigi Trovesi / Tony Oxley / Dietmar Diesner
Live At Jazzwerkstatt Peitz
2008, CD, Album, Jazzwerkstatt
Tony Oxley, Derek Bailey
The Advocate
2007, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Free Improvisation
Alan Skidmore / Tony Oxley / Ali Haurand : S.O.H.
Live In London
2007, CD, Album, Jazzwerkstatt, Jazzwerkstatt, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Tony Oxley / The B.I.M.P. Quartet
Floating Phantoms
2002, CD, Album, a/l/l, ,
Free Jazz/Experimental/Free Improvisation
Cecil Taylor / Bill Dixon / Tony Oxley
Cecil Taylor / Bill Dixon / Tony Oxley
2002, CD, Album, Les Disques Victo, Les Disques Victo, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Frank Gratkowski / Fred van Hove / Tony Oxley
GratHovOx
2002, CD, Album, Nuscope Recordings
Bill Dixon / Matthias Bauer / Klaus Koch / Tony Oxley
Berlin Abbozzi
2000, CD, Album, FMP, ,
Free Improvisation
Howard Riley Trio : Howard Riley with Barry Guy & Tony Oxley
Synopsis
2000
Evan Parker • Cecil Taylor • Barry Guy • Tony Oxley
Nailed
2000, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Bill Dixon With Tony Oxley
Papyrus - Volume I
1999, CD, Album, Soul Note
Bill Dixon With Tony Oxley
Papyrus - Volume II
1999, CD, Album, Soul Note, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Alexander von Schlippenbach & Tony Oxley
Digger's Harvest
1999
Paul Bley / Furio Di Castri / Tony Oxley
Chaos
1998, CD, Album, Soul Note, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Derek Bailey And Tony Oxley
Soho Suites (Recordings From 1977 & 1995)
1997, 2xCD, Album, Incus
Ekkehard Jost, Reiner Winterschladen, Ewald Oberleitner, Tony Oxley
Deep
1997, CD, Album, Fish Music
Stefano Battaglia, Paolino Dalla Porta, Tony Oxley
Sulphur
1995, CD, Album, Splasc(h) Records
Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Tony Oxley / John Surman
In The Evenings Out There
1993
Cecil Taylor / Harald Kimmig / Muneer Abdul Fataah / William Parker / Tony Oxley
Looking (Berlin Version) Corona
1991
Gordon Beck, Dieter Ilg, Tony Oxley, Stan Sulzmann, Kenny Wheeler
A Tribute To Bill Evans
1991,
Stefano Battaglia - Tony Oxley
Explore
1990, CD, Album, Splasc(H) Records
Claudio Fasoli - Mick Goodrick - Palle Danielsson - Tony Oxley
Bodies
1990, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley
Leaf Palm Hand
1989
Tony Oxley and Philipp Wachsmann
The Glider & The Grinder
1987, LP, Bead Records, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
Palle Mikkelborg, Charlie Mariano, Paolo Damiani, Tony Oxley, Tiziana Ghiglioni
Silenzi Osceni - Live In Roccella Jonica 1986
1987, LP, Ismez/Polis Music
Norma Winstone / Kenny Wheeler / Paolo Fresu / John Taylor (2) / Paolo Damiani / Tony Oxley
Live At Roccella Jonica
1985
Alan Skidmore, Tony Oxley, Ali Haurand : SOH*
SOH
1981, LP, Album, View Records
Ulrich Gumpert · Radu Malfatti · Tony Oxley
Ach Was!?
1981
Gordon Beck · Ron Mathewson · Tony Oxley · Stan Sulzmann · Kenny Wheeler
Seven Steps To Evans - A Tribute To The Compositions Of Bill Evans
1980, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Alan Skidmore, Tony Oxley, Ali Haurand : S.O.H.
S.O.H.
1979, LP, Album, EGO Records (3), ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Tony Oxley
February Papers
1977
Giorgio Gaslini Meets Jean-Luc Ponty / Steve Lacy / Harry Becket* / Tony Oxley / Gianni Bedori / Bruno Tommaso / Paul Rutherford
Giorgio Gaslini Meets Jean-Luc Ponty / Steve Lacy / Harry Becket / Tony Oxley / Gianni Bedori / Bruno Tommaso / Paul Rutherford
1976, ,
Free Jazz
Tony Oxley
Tony Oxley
1975, LP, Album, Incus
John Surman • Alan Skidmore • Tony Oxley
Jazz In Britain '68-'69
1972, ,
Post Bop
Tony Oxley
Ichnos
1971
Tony Oxley
4 Compositions For Sextet
1970, ,
Free Improvisation
Tony Oxley Quintet
Angular Apron
2024, CD, Album, Corbett vs. Dempsey, ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
London Jazz Composers Orchestra
That Time
2020, CD, Album, Not Two Records, ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Tony Oxley / Derek Bailey Quartet
Tony Oxley / Derek Bailey Quartet
2008, CD, Jazzwerkstatt, ,
Free Improvisation
Joseph Holbrooke Trio
The Moat Recordings
2006, 2xCD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Free Improvisation
Howard Riley Trio
Overground
2001, CD, Album, Emanem, ,
Free Improvisation
Tony Oxley Project 1
Triangular Screen
2000, CD, Sofa
Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble
Melancholy
1999
Tomasz Stanko Quartet*
Matka Joanna
1995
The Feel Trio
Celebrated Blazons
1994, CD, Album, FMP, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
The Tony Oxley Quartet
The Tony Oxley Quartet
1993, CD, Incus, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
University Jazz Project
Live In Verona
1991, CD, Album, ARTIS Records,
The Feel Trio
Looking (Berlin Version)
1990
European Jazz Ensemble
Live
1988, ,
Contemporary Jazz
The Quartet
Live
1987, LP, Album, Konnex Records, Konnex Records
Brötzmann Clarinet Project
Berlin Djungle
1987
The Quartet
Relation
1985, LP, Album, Konnex Records, Konnex Records
The Quartet
Dedications
1984, LP, Album, Konnex Records, Konnex Records
Coe, Oxley & Co.
Nutty On Willisau
1984,
Didier Levallet Octet
Scoop
1983, LP, Album, In And Out, ,
Free Jazz
The Tony Oxley Alan Davie Duo
The Alan Davie Music Workshop 005
1975
Rolf Kühn Jazzgroup
Going To The Rainbow
1971, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Fusion
Rolf Kühn Jazzgroup
Devil In Paradise
1971
The Alan Skidmore Quintet
Once Upon A Time....
1970, ,
Post Bop
Gordon Beck Trio
Gyroscope
1969, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop
Tony Oxley Quintet
The Baptised Traveller
1969, ,
Free Jazz
Ronnie Scott And The Band
Live At Ronnie Scott's
1968, ,
Bop
The Gordon Beck Quartet
Experiments With Pops
1968

APPEARANCES +


Perplex
Newborn
1995, CD, Album, Qualitape (2)
Alan Skidmore
A Supreme Love
2023, 6xCD + Box, Ltd, Confront, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Modal/Free Improvisation/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Big Band/Fusion/Free Jazz
Various
Jazz In Der DDR
2023, 3xCD + Box, Jazzwerkstatt, Jazzwerkstatt, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Various
And Did Those Feet... (Six British Jazz Composers)
2023, 2xCD, Jazz In Britain, ,
Post Bop/Free Jazz
Kenny Wheeler, The Kenny Wheeler Big Band* & Friends*
Live '71: The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends
2023, CD, ,
Big Band/Contemporary Jazz
Gordon Beck Trio
Suite #5
2022, File, FLAC, Mono, British Progressive Jazz
Various
Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain
2021, ,
Big Band/Jazz-Rock/Modal/Fusion
Gordon Beck
Jubilation! (Trios, Quartets And Septets In Session 1964-1984)
2018, 3xCD + Box, Turtle Records,
Mark Nauseef
All In All In All
2018, CD, Album, Relative Pitch Records
Cecil Taylor
Conversations With Tony Oxley
2018, CD, Album, Jazzwerkstatt
Gordon Beck Quartet* Featuring Joy Marshall
When Sunny Gets Blue (Spring '68 Sessions)
2018, CD, Album, Turtle Records
Various
Turtle Records (Pioneering British Jazz 1970 - 1971)
2015, CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album,, RPM Records (2), ,
Free Jazz/Modal/Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
The Tubby Hayes Quartet*
Seven Steps To Heaven: Live At The Hopbine 1972
2013, LP, Album, Ltd, 180, Gearbox Records
Leszek Zadlo, Alan Skidmore
The EGO Recordings Of Leszek Zadlo · Alan Skidmore
2013, CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album,, Organic Music (3), EGO Records (3), EGO Records (3), EGO Records (3), EGO Records (3)
Paul Bley
The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
2013, ,
Free Improvisation/Post Bop
Anthony Braxton
Trio (Wuppertal) 1989 - Part 1
2012
Anthony Braxton
Trio (Wuppertal) 1989 - Part 2
2012
Enrico Rava
The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
2010, 5xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note, ,
Fusion/Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Bill Dixon
The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
2010, 9xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note, ,
Free Jazz
Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Bill Frisell, The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Carla Bley, Tomasz Stańko
40 Jaar ECM
2009, 9xCD, Comp, RM + CD, Smplr + Box, ECM Records,
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky
Ein Nachmittag In Peitz
2008, CD, Album, Jazzwerkstatt, Jazzwerkstatt, ,
Free Jazz
Giorgio Gaslini
L'Integrale (Antologia Cronologica) CD N°7 (1973), CD N°8 (1973-74)
2008, 2xCD, Comp, Soul Note, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Georgie Fame
Somebody Stole My Thunder (Jazz-Soul Grooves 1967-1971)
2007, CD, Comp, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, ,
Mod/Soul/Soul-Jazz/Rhythm & Blues
Barry Guy
Portrait
2007, CD, Comp, Intakt Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Various
Ictus Records' 30th Anniversary Collection
2006, 12xCD, Comp, Ltd, Num + Box, Ictus Records, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Various
Rebels, Travelers & Improvisers
2006, CD, Album, RM, Ictus Records, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Various
Tales Of... Gary Peacock
2006, CD, Album, Comp, Musica Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Paul Bley
Tra Piano E Synth
2006, CD, Comp, DeAgostini, DeAgostini
Georgie Fame
The Two Faces Of Fame / The Third Face Of Fame
2006,
Kenny Wheeler
Song For Kenny
2005, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz,
Michael Gibbs
Michael Gibbs · Tanglewood 63
2005, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Vocalion, ,
Jazz-Rock/Big Band
Tomasz Stanko*
Selected Recordings
2004,
John Surman
Selected Recordings
2004, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop/Fusion/Contemporary Jazz/Avantgarde
Various
Tribute To John Coltrane - Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special + A Tribute To Bill Evans - Live At The Brewhouse
2003
Bobo Stenson
Selected Recordings
2002, CD, Comp, Dig, ECM Records
Various
Selected Recordings I-VIII
2002, 10xCD, Comp, RM + Box, ECM Records, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop/Fusion/Contemporary Jazz/Jazz-Rock
Cecil Taylor Feel Trio*
2 Ts For A Lovely T
2002, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Bill Evans Trio*
The 1972 Ljubljana Concert
2002, CD,
Various
European Improvised Music
2001, CD, Promo, Smplr, NORCD, ,
Free Improvisation
Joseph Holbrooke*
'98
2000, CD, Album, Incus
Joseph Holbrooke '65*
Rehearsal Extract 10' 26
1999, CD, Single, Enh, Incus, ,
Free Improvisation/Modal
Cecil Taylor
Concrete
1998, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Ekkehard Jost
Some Other Tapes
1998, ,
Free Improvisation
Paul Rutherford (2) & Iskra 1912
Sequences 72 & 73
1997, CD, Emanem, ,
Free Improvisation
Tomasz Stanko*
Leosia
1997, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Various
Selected Signs, I
1997, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Bill Dixon
Vade Mecum II
1996, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra*
The Enchanted Messenger
1995, CD, Album, Soul Note
Neighbours
In The Tradition (Great Neighbours Music Vol. 5 & 6)
1994, 2xCD, GNM
Bill Dixon
Vade Mecum
1994
Tomasz Stańko
Bosonossa And Other Ballads
1993, ,
Contemporary Jazz
John Surman
Adventure Playground
1992
Cecil Taylor
Burning Poles
1991, VHS, Mystic Fire Video
Augusto Mancinelli
Extreme
1990, CD, Album, Splasc(H) Records, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Cecil Taylor
In Berlin '88
1989, 10xCD, Album, Ltd + Box, FMP, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Various
Kimus #3
1989, CD, Comp, Ltd, Num, hat ART,
Anthony Braxton
Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989
1989, ,
Free Jazz
Various
Jazz-Club • Guitar
1989, ,
Afro-Cuban Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk
Phil Minton
The Berlin Station
1988, ,
Free Jazz/Experimental
Barry Guy / Anthony Braxton With London Jazz Composers Orchestra
Zurich Concerts
1988, 2x Vinyl Gatefold, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Tony Oxley's Celebration Orchestra
Tomorrow Is Here - Jazzfest Berlin 1985, Live From The Philharmonie
1986, LP, Album, Dossier
The Quartet (2) Feat. Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky*
Interchange
1986
Rava*
String Band
1984
London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Barry Guy
Stringer
1983, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz/Free Improvisation/Electroacoustic
Various
The Jazz Rock Album
1979,
Jasper Van't Hof, George Gruntz
Fairytale
1979, ,
Fusion/Prog Rock
Interjazz 4*
Starý Dobrý Cirkus
1979, Vinyl, ,
Free Jazz
Vangelis
Hypothesis
1978
Various
Los Grandes De La Guitarra Vol. 1
1977, ,
Classic Rock
Various
The Guitar Album
1975
Howard Riley
Synopsis
1974
George Gruntz
Monster Sticksland Meeting Two - Monster Jazz
1974
Jean-Luc Ponty Meets Giorgio Gaslini
Jean-Luc Ponty Meets Giorgio Gaslini
1974, ,
Free Jazz
Kenny Wheeler
Song For Someone
1973, ,
Free Jazz/Big Band/Contemporary Jazz
Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez, Archie Shepp, Karin Krog
Live At The Festival
1973, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Post Bop/Modal
Various
13. Mednarodni Jazz Festival Ljubljana '72
1972, Cass, Album, RTV Ljubljana,
Fusion/Big Band/Modal
Barry Guy / The London Jazz Composers Orchestra*
Ode
1972, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Howard Riley
Flight
1971, ,
Free Improvisation
Various
Zurich Jazz Festival 1970
1971, ,
Swing/Modal/Dixieland/Jazz-Rock/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Various
Die Jazz-Werkstatt '70
1970, LP, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Post Bop/Fusion
John Surman
How Many Clouds Can You See?
1970, Vinyl, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Don 'Sugarcane' Harris*
Keep On Driving
1970
Michael Gibbs
Michael Gibbs
1970, ,
Big Band/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz/Rhythm & Blues/Funk
Various
Gittin' To Know Y'All
1970, ,
Free Jazz
Polished Brass Of London
Top Brass
1969, LP, Album, Music For Pleasure, ,
Big Band
John McLaughlin
Extrapolation
1969, ,
Post Bop/Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Prog Rock
Various
Mezinárodní Jazzový Festival Praha 1967
1968, ,
Hard Bop/Free Jazz/Big Band/Vocal
Georgie Fame
The Two Faces Of Fame
1967, ,
Big Band
Various
Audion 77 (multimedia)
2024, 21xFile, FLAC, pdf, Audion Publications
Paolo Damiani & Friends
Roccellanea - 25 Anni Di "Roccella Jazz"
2005, CD, Musica Jazz,
Various
Selected Recordings IX - XX
2004, 12xCD, Comp, RM + Box, ECM Records,
Various
Splasc(h) Story
2002, CD, Comp, Smplr, Splasc(h) Records, Musica Jazz,
Anthony Braxton
International New Jazz Festival, Moers, 1976
2015, Cass, Unofficial, Anökumena
Bill Evans Trio*
Complete February 1972 Paris ORTF Performance
2005
Vangelis
The Dragon / Hypothesis
2002
Howard Riley
Flight
1995, ,
Free Improvisation
Don 'Sugarcane' Harris*
Keep On Driving
1970
Vangelis
The Dragon / Hypothesis
CD, Comp, Unofficial, Platinum Music (2)
Bill Evans
Complete Live At The Festival
CDr, Ltd, Num, Unofficial, Cool Jazz
John McLaughlin
Extrapolation