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Mad Axe Quartet A

from Over There by Hopper/Hewins/Coxhill/Sheen

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"An ecclectic typically canterbury style ,at times bucolic romp through the sublime and the ridiculous..
in the Form of the one and only performance ever by Mad axe, a band convened by the Late Hugh hopper ..

This sits stylistically somewhere between the frolicsome free floating RnB of Delivery , and the more complex less whimsical more intensely organic 'free' fusion of soft heap (another Hopper band, which Hewins was also in for a time...)

As great as the band is , the real interest for me is of course Lol Coxhills playing ,His distinctive trade mark slippery soprano, joyously romping and weaving insousciantly through every stylistic variation!..there are few things in this world more fulfilling and Beautiful!

from a purely technical standpoint Coxhill also registers,better than the others on these averagely, recorded but very listenable , highly entertaining 2 sets

recording is slightly reverberant and bright , but a whole lot better sounding than the later gen version thats been floating around on dime and elsewhere(as mp3's)

there are times when Hewins guitar tone sounds so much like an electric piano ,its uncanny .. that's mostly down to the sound quality of the acoustics of the room.
this must have been a Fun gig
Lol coxhill .. long may he Play !!!
ENJOY!!"


Hugh Hopper, Mad Axe quartet

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from Over There, released May 9, 2020
Bull and Gate-London , 3-9-1985
Hugh Hopper-e bass
Lol Coxhill-Soprano Sax, Voice
Mark Hewins-E Guitar
Dave Sheen-dr

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Mark Hewins Margate, UK

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www.calyx-canterbury.fr/mus/hewins_mark.html -

N W U (1995 arch)
web.archive.org/web/19970811030512/http://www.nwu.edu/wnur/jazz/charts/Hewins/Hewins.html -
(Including some Manuscript downloads)
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