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Tony Oxley was an English free improvising drummer and electronic musician.

Biography
Tony Oxley was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on 15 June 1938. A self-taught pianist by the age of eight, he first began playing the drums at seventeen. In Sheffield he was taught by Haydon Cook. While playing evening gigs with local dance bands at night, he was sacked from his regular job, at a cutlery-making company, for falling asleep. During his National Service, with the Black Watch military band, from 1957 to 1960, he studied music theory and improved his drumming technique. Oxley moved to London in 1966 and became house drummer at Ronnie Scott's, In 1973 he became a tutor at the Jazz Summer School in Barry, South Wales, and in 1974 he formed the band Angular Apron. In 2000 he released the album Triangular Screen with the Tony Oxley Project 1, a trio with Ivar Grydeland and Tonny Kluften. Oxley's own abstract paintings appeared on the covers of some of his later albums, including his last, The New World, a recording of electronic and acoustic percussion music, released on the Discus label in 2023. == Personal life and death ==
Personal life and death
Oxley married Tutta (nee Rütten) in 2000. ==Discography==
Discography
As leaderThe Baptised Traveller (CBS, 1969) • 4 Compositions for Sextet (CBS, 1970) • Ichnos (RCA Victor, 1971) • ''Jazz in Britain '68–'69'' with John Surman, Alan Skidmore (Decca Eclipse, 1972) • Tony Oxley (Incus, 1975) • The Tony Oxley/Alan Davie Duo with Alan Davie (ADMW, 1975) • February Papers (Incus, 1977) • S. O. H. (EGO, 1979) • Ach Was!? with Ulrich Gumpert, Radu Malfatti (FMP, 1981) • SOH (View, 1981) • Nutty On Willisau with Tony Coe (Hat Hut, 1984) • Live at Roccella Jonica with Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Paolo Fresu, John Taylor, Paolo Damiani (Ismez/Polis Music, 1985) • Tomorrow is Here Jazzfest Berlin 1985, Live from the Philharmonie (Dossier, 1986) • The Glider & The Grinder with Philipp Wachsmann (Bead, 1987) • Live in Roccella Jonica 1986 with Palle Mikkelborg, Charlie Mariano, Paolo Damiani, Tiziana Ghiglioni (Ismez/Polis, 1987) • Bodies with Claudio Fasoli, Mick Goodrick, Palle Danielsson (New Sound Planet, 1990) • Explore with Stefano Battaglia (Splasc(H), 1990) • In the Evenings out There with Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, John Surman (ECM, 1993) • The Tony Oxley Quartet (Incus, 1993) • Sulphur with Stefano Battaglia, Paolino Dalla Porta (Splasc(H), 1995) • The Enchanted Messenger (Soul Note, 1995) • Deep with Ekkehard Jost, Reiner Winterschladen, Ewald Oberleitner (Fish Music, 1997) • Soho Suites (Recordings from 1977 & 1995) with Derek Bailey (Incus, 1997) • ''Digger's Harvest'' with Alexander von Schlippenbach (FMP, 1999) • Triangular Screen (Sofa, 2000) • Floating Phantoms (a/l/l, 2002) • GratHovOx with Frank Gratkowski, Fred Van Hove (Nuscope, 2002) • S.O.H. Live in London with Alan Skidmore, Ali Haurand (Jazzwerkstatt 2007) • The Advocate with Derek Bailey (Tzadik, 2007) • Tony Oxley/Derek Bailey Quartet (Jazzwerkstatt, 2008) • Live at Jazzwerkstatt Peitz with Conny Bauer, Gianluigi Trovesi, Dietmar Diesner (Jazzwerkstatt 2008) • Improvised Pieces for Trio with Sebastiano Meloni, Adriano Orru (Big Round, 2010) • A Birthday Tribute: 75 years (Incus, 2013) • Beaming (Confront Recordings, 2020) • Elaboration of Particulars (Confront, 2021) recorded in 1977 and 1978 • Unreleased 1974–2016 (Discus, 2022) • The New World (Discus, 2022) With The QuartetDedications (Konnex, 1984) • Relation (Konnex, 1985) • Interchange (Konnex, 1986) • Live (Konnex, 1987) As guest With Gordon BeckGyroscope (Morgan, 1969) • Seven Steps to Evans – A Tribute to the Compositions of Bill Evans (MPS, 1980) With Gordon Beck QuartetExperiments with Pops (Major Minor, 1968) • ''When Sunny Gets Blue (Spring '68 Sessions)'' (Turtle, 2018) With Bill DixonVade Mecum (Soul Note, 1994) • Vade Mecum II (Soul Note, 1994) • Papyrus Volume I (Soul Note, 1999) • Papyrus Volume II (Soul Note, 1999) • Berlin Abbozzi (FMP, 2000) With Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers OrchestraOde (Incus, 1972) • Stringer (FMP, 1983) • Zurich Concerts (Intakt, 1988) With Joseph Holbrooke • ' 98 (Incus 2000) • The Moat Recordings (Tzadik, 2006) With Rolf KühnDevil in Paradise (BASF, 1971) • Going to the Rainbow (BASF, 1971) With Howard RileyFlight (Turtle, 1971) • Synopsis (Incus 1974) • Overground (Emanem, 2001) With Tomasz StańkoMatka Joanna (ECM, 1995) • Leosia (ECM, 1997) With John SurmanHow Many Clouds Can You See? (Deram, 1970) • Adventure Playground (ECM, 1992) With Cecil TaylorLeaf Palm Hand (Disc 6 of 11-disc set ''Cecil Taylor in Berlin '88'') (FMP, 1989) • Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio (FMP, 1990) • Looking (Berlin Version) Corona (FMP, 1991) • Celebrated Blazons (FMP, 1993) • Melancholy (FMP, 1999) • Nailed (FMP, 2000) • 2 Ts for a Lovely T (Codanza, 2002) • Taylor/Dixon/Oxley (Les Disques Victo, 2002) • Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of 2 Root Songs (Triple Point, 2009) • Conversations with Tony Oxley (Jazzwerkstatt, 2018) • Birdland, Neuburg 2011 (Fundacja Słuchaj!, 2020) • Being Astral and All Registers – Power of Two (Discus, 2020) With othersPaul Bley, Chaos with Furio Di Castri (Soul Note, 1998) • Anthony Braxton, Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 (hatART, 1989) • Peter Brötzmann, Berlin Djungle (FMP, 1987) • Bill Evans, The 1972 Ljubljana Concert (2018) • Georgie Fame, The Two Faces Of Fame (CBS, 1967) • Michael Gibbs, Michael Gibbs (Deram, 1970) • George Gruntz, Monster Sticksland Meeting Two: Monster Jazz (MPS, 1974) • Tubby Hayes, Seven Steps to Heaven: Live at the Hopbine 1972 (Gearbox, 2013) • Giorgio Gaslini & Jean-Luc Ponty, Jean-Luc Ponty Meets Giorgio Gaslini (1974) • Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Keep On Driving (MPS, 1970) • Didier Levallet, Scoop (In+Out, 1983) • John McLaughlin, Extrapolation (1969) • Mark Nauseef, All In All In All (Relative Pitch, 2018) • Paul Rutherford & Iskra 1912, Sequences 72 & 73 (Emanem, 1997) • Ronnie Scott, ''Live at Ronnie Scott's'' (CBS, 1968) • Alan Skidmore, Once Upon a Time (Deram, 1970) • Vangelis, Hypothesis (Bellaphon, 1978) • Jasper van 't Hof and George Gruntz, Fairytale (MPS 1979) • Kenny Wheeler, Song for Someone (Incus, 1973) ==References==
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