Jazz Articles about Steve Beresford

like 2

Giancarlo Nino Locatelli: A Decent Run

by Mark Corroto
July 24, 2026

Who needs poetry in an age of internet memes, infinite scrolling and artificial intelligence? Poems ask us to linger over words, to discover meaning in silence as much as in language. Memes, by contrast, are consumed in an instant and forgotten just as quickly. We live in a culture that increasingly prizes immediacy over reflection, image over text and distraction over contemplation. So who still needs poetry? Italian clarinetist Giancarlo Nino Locatelli makes a compelling case that we all do. ...

like 4

Luc Houtkamp: Frush

by John Eyles
October 4, 2025

The album Frush was recorded on November 17 2023, in concert at LOFT, Cologne, by German recording engineer and producer Stefan Deistler whose studio is based just outside Cologne. It was mixed and mastered by Luc Houtkamp, a band member who was born in The Hague, The Netherlands, in December 1953 and plays tenor saxophone and clarinet here. Incidentally, as far back as November 2017, at The Alternativa Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, Houtkamp had played in a ...

like 3

Houtkamp / Tramontana / Beresford / Blume: Frush

by John Eyles
July 27, 2024

The improvising trio comprising Netherlands tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Luc Houtkamp, British pianist and player of electronics and objects Steve Beresford, and German drummer and percussionist Martin Blume is well established, having recorded their first trio album Live in Prague 2017 (the pow ensemble, 2017) in November 2017 at the Alternativa Festival in Czechia, followed by Shed 1 (FMR, 2020), recorded in concert at LOFT in Cologne, Germany, in October 2018. On each of those albums, all of the music ...

like 3

Steve Beresford and Angharad Davies: Trwst

by John Eyles
April 11, 2020

On March 6th 2020, Steve Beresford celebrated his seventieth birthday with a jam-packed three-day residency at London's renowned venue Café Oto, under the fitting heading “Piano, Noise, Music and Toys." (It was the last such event at Oto before its Coronavirus lockdown.) Across the residency, audiences saw a cross-section of performances which illustrated the breadth of Beresford's talents and interests; he played in separate duos with violinists Satoko Fukada and Mandhira De Saram, and in a trio with comedian Stewart ...

like 1

Steve Beresford & John Butcher: Old Paradise Airs

by John Eyles
January 28, 2020

Recorded in May 2019, at London's Iklectik venue (which is located in Old Paradise Yard), Old Paradise Airs pairs Steve Beresford on piano, objects or electronics with John Butcher on tenor or soprano saxophone, a duo which dates back to 1988 when Beresford and Butcher (plus trombonist Alan Tomlinson) recorded a five-minute track for a compilation on the nato label, the rather unspectacular start to a long relationship. Since then, recordings featuring Beresford and Butcher together have been comparatively scarce, ...

like 2

Nigel Coombes, Steve Beresford: White String's Attached (improvised violin and piano duets and a violin solo)

by Vic Albani
November 26, 2014

Con perfetto humour britannico Nigel Coombes, violinista inglese attivo per un buon ventennio dai '70 ai '90 scrisse, nelle note di copertina di questo disco apparso nel 1979, che Beethoven stesso realizzò da solo che pianoforte e violino “suonassero davvero orribilmente insieme." “Strumenti che fondamentalmente si odiano l'un altro e... che fosse ora di finirla di comporre sonate e composizioni varie per questi due strumenti." Eugene Chadbourne in un nuovo commento apparso su AMG nei primi anni ...

like 474

Okkyung Lee / Peter Evans / Steve Beresford: Check for Monsters

by John Eyles
March 28, 2009

Recorded in New York and Philadelphia on a mini-tour in March 2008, this Anglo-American-Korean trio brings together superb improvisers who are not immediately obvious as a compatible threesome but who combine together to stunning effect. Pianist Steve Beresford, the trio's elder statesman, surely needs no introduction; leaving aside his other music, his work with the London Improvisers Orchestra and with Evan Parker guarantees him almost legendary status as an improviser.

Although he works in other musical areas, New York-based trumpeter ...