WELCOME TO RAY COYLE'S WEB SITE.
Ray is a mallet player/composer/percussionist from the U.K now living in Chicago and active in various musical projects and teaching at several schools.Ray has also gigged extensively in England and Europe and has composed music for film and dance.
Please click on the buttons to see the different activities.
I HAVE ADDED A NEW PAGE CALLED "PERCUSSION MUSIC".
THESE ARE PIECES I WROTE FOR STUDENT ENSEMBLES.
I WILL BE MAKING THE SCORES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD LATER .
We will be on W.N.U.R'S airplay show live for one hour on November 19th at 4:00 p.m. central time .
The line up for this special event is:
Doug Rosenberg / saxes
James Davis / trumpet+electronics
Thad Duval /bass
Rick Shandling /drums
Ray Coyle / vibes +electronics
We are playing at The Green Mill on September 25th as part of the Jazz Composers Collective.We will also be joined by James Davis on trumpet.
The show starts at 2 p.m.
Contact the Green Mill for details.
"The arts stand naked without a defence in a world where what cannot be measured is not valued" J.Tusa from his book Art Matters
JUNE 2011
I have been busy finishing off various recordings and some are already posted on the site. Considering that it's summer time in Chicago (at last ! ) we're giving away some of the stuff as FREE DOWNLOADS, so help yourself.....
May 2011
I have just uploaded 2 new tracks with the 4 tet which we recorded last week. "Skies" which the observant amongst you with notice is a 3 part canon! Then there is a second track which is a 'homage' to Phillip Glass called Shattered Glass.I hope you like them.If you don't, just keep it to yourself :)
Ray Coyle- Vibes ,keyboards, composer
Shimon Marcucci -Saxes
Swen Hendrickson- Bass
Rick (jazzbo) Shandling - Drums
April 2011
I have just uploaded some new tracks the 4 tet recorded recently and they're a bit of a departure from what we normally do. I hope you like them .I will be uploading more tracks soon if everything goes to plan....
March 2011
I have loaded up some recent recordings of songs such as Bali Mau, The Burning of Cork and Aural Ecstasy.These were done with my regular quartet . I hope you like them.
There are also some new recordings done with sax,drums and mallets under the provisional title of "Treeyoh".
I AM CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR BY GIVING AWAY MORE FREE MUSIC. IT'S BEEN A TOUGH TIME FOR MANY SO I HOPE NEXT YEAR GETS A BIT BETTER.HELP YOURSELF TO THE FREE DOWNLOADS AND "PAY IT FORWARD " BY DOING SOMETHING GOOD FOR SOMEONE ELSE.....
I have uploaded a free download for Xmas. This is a track I recorded with my daughter Bonnie playing vibes, trombone and accordion. I hope you like it.
I will be performing tonight in a trio with Christopher Bruce and Daniel Godston at the Brown Rice -4432 N. Kedzie Ave in Chicago at 9:00 p.m.
The Ray Coyle Quartet is playing a rare Chicago show on NOVEMBER 8th as a benefit for the Greater Chicago Food Repository. The C.F.R. does great work helping to feed the poor and needy in these troubled times. The show starts at 6p.m. and is at The Catalyst 656W. RANDOLPH, Suite 3W. in Chicago. James Davis (trumpet) will also be joining us on this gig as special guest. There will also be lots of other of entertainment too as well as food, raffles etc...
The entry fee is by donation of a can of food OR $5:00 . Tel Catalyst Ranch (312) 207 1710 for more details.
June 2010:
I have posted some recent recording that I did with my quartet, and also a piece with guitarist James Seaberry called Ithaca so please check them out.
The line up is :
SCHIMON MARCUCCI =SOPRANO SAX
RIK SHANDLING = DRUMS
SWEN HENDRICKSON = BASS
RAY COYLE = VIBES, MARIMBA (composer)
This is the first time we have recorded with this line up and the guys did a great job and we'll be doing more recordings in the very near future.I also want to give a special mention to Swen who is only 19 years old and doing a great job playing bass.
thanks
Ray
Below is a quote from drummer Bill Bruford which I found to be very relevant to todays music business.
"After a brief aberration in the late 60’s and 70’s, rock music has reverted to type, namely in that it is the preserve of the song writer, record producer, and record company, and is an area generally hostile to the ideas of a free thinking instrumentalist. That is probably as it should be, but it means the purveyors of the marginal fringe ideas that fueled rock in the aberrant post-Beatles era, the people who brought Indian music, classical music, psychedelia, jazz, minimalism, and the like, in short all the things that made rock interesting, have been booted out, back to where they came from, branded as the meddlers they indeed were. I went back to jazz. There, the relationship is between performer and audience, as indeed it is in small intelligent rock, rather than performer and record company, as it is in the mass market. Waiting for someone at the "label" , who neither knows anything about nor cares for music, to give you permission to play, is of course, insufferable."
All compositions on this site are original copyrighted compositions by Ray Coyle, except for April in Paris by Duke and Harburg and Chega de Saudade by A.C. Jobim.
