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Steve Beresford

Steve Beresford (born 1950) is a British musician. He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, trumpet, euphonium, double-bass and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He has also played a wide range of music. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop music groups. Beresford was born in Wellington, Shropshire in England, studied at the University of York, and stayed in York after graduating, becoming involved in theatre as well as arranging various free improvisation concerts in the city. At this early stage, he was playing a wide variety of music, playing the Hammond Organ in a soul music covers band, featuring on Trevor Wishart 's early work Journey Into Space (1973) and free improvising. In 1974, Beresford moved to London, where he played in Derek Bailey's Company events and in the groups Alterations with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack, and the Three Pullovers with Nigel Coombes and Roger Smith. He was also a member with Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno of the Portsmouth Sinfonia. Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Alfred Harth in the group Gestalt et Jive and Han Bennink. He has also worked with a number of popular musicians, including The Slits, Frank Chickens, Ted Milton and The Flying Lizards. During the 1970s, Beresford was a co-founder and co-editor of the magazine Musics, which dealt mainly with free improvisation, whilst during the early 1980s he helped to set up the somewhat glossier publication Collusion, which had a wider musical remit, covering fields such as rap, heavy metal, classical music, film music, pop music as well as the avant-garde and free improvisation. Along with David Toop, Beresford was also a prime mover of the London Musicians Collective.

A Decent Run

By Giancarlo Nino Locatelli

Label: We Insist! Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Situations; Poetry; In Memoriam L. W.; Vita Cortese Tara; Sign of Time; Warm Autumn Problem; Colonel Eternal; Radhopsin Blues; Translation; Oppio Inglese; A Decent Run; Absence.

Joe Morris, Barry Guy/Roberto Ottaviano & Bill Connors

by Maurice Hogue
July 27, 2026

Bassist/guitarist Joe Morris was recently honored at the annual Vision Festival for his lifetime contributions, and if anyone has any doubts about that, just listen to his new album Counter Spectacle out on the FSR label. With reed players Rob Brown & Anna Webber & drummer Matthew Rousseau, Morris lets freedom reign. This is a true ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maria Borghi ci parla della We Insist!

by Libero Farnè
June 16, 2025

L'indagine sulle case discografiche indipendenti italiane, di cui sono già state presentate due interviste relative a Red Records e Dodicilune, ha lo scopo soprattutto d'individuare le differenze e le peculiarità che caratterizzano queste coraggiose realtà; ognuna infatti ha una propria storia, una sua filosofia, oltre che metodi organizzativi per affrontare i vari aspetti della produzione, distribuzione ...

Sergio Armaroli, Andrea Centazzo: Bacchette Magiche

by Neri Pollastri
May 19, 2025

Bacchette Magiche Sergio Armaroli, Andrea Centazzo 190 Pagine ISBN: 978-88-3617-287-0 Manni Editori 2023 Due percussionisti, compositori, improvvisatori e creativi, esploratori della musica a trecentosessanta gradi, ma anche amici di vecchia data, due spiriti critici che non le mandano a dire, i quali, vivendo in due ben diversi e distanti ...

Frush

By Luc Houtkamp

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Frap; Flusk; Fidther; Fream; Frush; Fracchen; Frizzling.

Duck Baker: Breakdown Lane: Free Solos & Duos 1976​-​1998

by Mark Corroto
December 4, 2024

This release is a great introduction to the music of Duck Baker and, maybe more importantly, a reminder of why the musician's sound is so vital. Baker, a finger-style acoustic guitarist, is a folk music omnivore. Besides Scottish and Irish fiddle music, he is at home with bebop, blues, free jazz and free improvisation. Let that ...

Wayne Shorter, Samara Joy, Barker/Irabagon/Parker, Tom Johnson Jazz Orchestra

by Cheryl K.
October 1, 2024

During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music--saxophonist Wayne Shorter; vocalist Samara Joy; Meva's Journal; trombonist Ryan Keberle; drummer Gerald Cleaver; keyboardist, composer and bandleader Tom Johnson; and The Impanemas. Playlist Wayne Shorter “Zero Gravity to the 15th Dimension" from Celebration, Vol. 1 (Blue Note) 11:42 Sara Serpa “Mercy and Caprice" from ...