Results for "John Butcher"

John Butcher with Derek Bailey and Rhodri Davies: Vortices and Angels

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 2001

This newly released set is apportioned into two sections: The first two pieces feature legendary British free-improviser, guitarist Derek Bailey performing with compatriot, saxophonist John Butcher, live at the “Vortex” club in London, whereas Butcher and harpist, Rhodri Davies execute three duet pieces at a London church. Basically, these recordings provide the listener with stark contrasting ...

John Butcher/Xavier Charles/Axel Dorner: The Contest Of Pleasures

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2001

The occasion of this live recording was a jazz festival in Hulhouse, at the southern end of Alsace. The musicians, Jon Butcher, Xavier Charles, and Axel Dorner came together in the Chapelle Saint-Jean on a hot August day in 2000, to create spontaneous music. What was captured was on overtly patient documentation of three improvisors working ...

John Butcher - Xavier Charles - Axel Dorner: The Contest of Pleasures

by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 2001

Recorded live at the “Jazz a’ Mulhouse Festival”, The Contest of Pleasures is a subtly dynamic improvising extravaganza brought to us by three forward thinking European horn men; saxophonist John Butcher, clarinetist Xavier Charles and trumpeter Axel Dorner. With this newly issued outing, the musicians’ explore abstruse regions of sound amid odd voicings, high-pitched harmonies, intricate ...

John Butcher with Derek Bailey & Rhodri Davies: Vortices & Angels

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

Vortices & Angels offers two separate London duos featuring saxophonist John Butcher, and the title of this disc could not be more apt for the music contained within. The “Vortices" part (two pieces; 38 minutes) documents Butcher's performance with iconic free improv guitarist Derek Bailey at the Vortex, a jazz club in north London. This pair ...

John Butcher: Fixations (14) - Solo Saxophone 1997-2000

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2001

Though saxophonist John Butcher is not short on instrumental prowess, his primary assets lie in the realm of ideas. On Fixations, Butcher has rejected conventional jazz thinking (swing, melodicism, harmonic cycles) in favor of creating his own personal language of improvisation. As Butcher puts it in the liner notes, “...improvisation can only make sense when it ...

Anomalies In The Customs Of The Day: Music On Seven Occasions

By John Butcher

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2000

Requests And Antisongs

By John Butcher

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2000

Music on Seven Ocassions

By John Butcher

Label: Meniscus
Released: 2000
Track listing: Phlogiston/ Caloric/ Late Impromptu/ 1st Singularity/ 2nd Singularity/ Routemasters/ Sea They Think They Hear/ Gil Thread Dream/ Anomalies In The Customs of the Day/ The Step Sequence/ The Late Approach/ The Interior Design/ The Only Way Out/ 3rd Singularity/ 4th Singularity/ Cold That Bites/ Shadow Play/ Clackchat.

Recorded: 6/22/97, Oakland, CA (1, 2); 7/28/97, Kingston, UK (3); 11/23/97, London, UK (4, 5); 2/7/98, London, UK (6, 7, 8, 14, 15); 2/18/96, London, UK (9); 6/30/97, Chicago, IL (10, 11, 12, 13); 7/1/97, Evanston, IL (16, 17, 18).

Meniscus recordings are available directly through North Country Distributors (http://www.cadencebuilding.com)

John Butcher/Phil Durrant: Requests And Antisongs

by Glenn Astarita
November 1, 2000

Requests And Antisongs represents a series of pieces performed by two prominent masters of the British improv scene, saxophonist John Butcher and violinist, electronics expert Phil Durrant. Yet here, Durrant often counters or parallels Butcher’s fragmented themes and lines by solely utilizing – live electronics and modular feedback. With the opener, “Sheet Bends”, the listener should ...

John Butcher: Music on Seven Ocassions

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

John Butcher is an established improviser in the European creative music milieu. His exceptional approach to reed playing has been chronicled on numerous recordings, but until recently the majority of these releases have been limited to European circulation or as expensively priced imports. His new disc on Meniscus offers a two-fold benefit for listeners unfamiliar with ...