WELCOME TO RAY COYLE'S WEB SITE.
Ray is a mallet player/composer and percussionist from the U.K now living in Chicago and active in various musical projects and teaching at several schools.
Ray has also performed extensively in England and Europe and has composed music for film and dance.
Please check out the recent live recordings of the 6 tet.
I have also uploaded some recent "improv" recordings with Rick Shandling on drums, and another with Tom Madeja on trumpet. These are live in studio improvisations. Very little editing was done and everything you hear was as it occured in the studio.Good times !
Please click on the audio player on the left to hear the music.
The Ray Coyle Ensemble will be playing at the famous Green Mill in Chicago on Feb.24th as part of the Chicago Jazz Composers Collective.
We will be playing lots of new compositions featuring French Horn vituoso Jessica Pearce and Thomas Madeja from Nu-Directions Chamber Brass on trumpet.
The show starts at 2:00p.m. Come if you can..........
We are also playing at The Oak Park Arms on March 11th.The show starts at 7:00p.m.
It's bloody cold out there today in Chicago @7 degrees fahrenheit- that minus 13 celcius !!
As they say in England,it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey !!
December 2012:
I'm very haapy to announce that we have been writing and rehearsing new material with a French horn. This is not an instrument one usually associates with jazz but we are lucky to have found an excellent player in Jessica Pearce. She really adds a lopt of sonic depth to the band.We will be recording some of the material soon I hope. In the mean time I have posted some rough demo to give a little taste of things to come.
The line up for the band is:
Shimon Marcucci soprano sax
James Davis trumpet, flugel horn
John Lauler bass
Rick Shandling drums
Jessica Pearce french horn
Ray Coyle vibes /composer
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WE ARE PLAYING AT JERRY'S ON DIVISION ON JULY 10TH @10:00 .
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DON'T FORGET TO TUNE INTO W.Z.R.D. THIS THURSDAY AT 10:30 p.m. for our live broadcast .
"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
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Green Mill gig
The Green Mill, Chicago
With James Davis tpt
Shimon Marcucci sax
Eddie Breitweiser bass
Rick Shandling drums
Ray Coyle vibes
The Green Mill , Chicago
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Live in the WNUR studios
Ray Coyle vibes, keyboards electronics
Rick Shandling drums
Doug Rosenberg saxes
James Davis trumpet, electronics
Wetherberry bass
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Ray Coyle Ensemble .W.N.U.R.
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Ray Coyle 5 tet live at the Green Mill
Ray Coyle vibes, composer
Rick Shandling drums
James Davis trumpet
Shimon Marcucci soprano sax
Eddie Breitweiser bass
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Ray Coyle 5 tet live at the Green Mill
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Live with the wizzard
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Ray Coyle vibraphone, composer, Rick Shandling drums , Shimon Marcucci sop sax, Tom Madeja trumpet JohnLauler double bass .
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