News from the Shed

News from the Shed: News from the Shed

by Kurt Gottschalk
May 22, 2006

In the past half dozen years or so, as saxophonist John Butcher has become more and more recognized in the world of very quiet improv, interest in the early vinyl releases on his Acta label has increased. His 1992 solo disc 13 Friendly Numbers was issued on CD last year by the Dutch Unsounds label, and now Emanem has brought another one of the Acta records--certainly more talked about than heard--to the digital fore.

Butcher began playing in a trio ...