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1998 Coda - Inside the Shed - by Jon Morgan (hosted at EFIP). 1999 Altremusiche - Il sax multifonico - by Michele Coralli (in Italian). 2000 Jazz Times - Solo Flights - by Bill Shoemaker. 2001 Paris Transatlantic - Interview by Dan Warburton. Avant - Inside the Narrative - by Rhodri Davies (hosted at EFIP). Jazz Weekly - A Fireside Chat with John Butcher - by Fred Jung 2002 One Final Note - Houston TX - by Frank Rubolino. br> All About Jazz - Interview by John Eyles. 2003 The Squid's Ear - Improvising from a Sound Perspective - by Marc Chenard. Diapazon: - Simply in their Words - by Tom Sekowski. 2004 Altremusiche - The Art of Overtracking - by Michele Coralli. Jazz Review - The Test - with Richard Cook. | ![]() |
| recent magazine pieces |
RESONANCE - Winter 2005
Volume 10, Number 2 of the LMC's RESONANCE magazine. WIRE #249 - November 2004
"In the hands of London improvisor John Butcher, the saxophone can sound like anything, from a peice of hollowed out brass baubled with pads and valves to a hermetically sealed feedback system, a minature sound enviroment teeming with ever-evolving note forms, or a huge echo chamber inflicting dub scale damage on every breath. .................." SIGNAL TO NOISE - #35 - fall 2004
"Where the Saxophone Ends" - a 4 page interview by Bill Meyer. "John Butcher, who will turn 50 this October, learned how to play the saxophone in jazz bands, but well before he started recording in the mid-80s, he had purged most of the sax's familiar vocabulary.
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