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Although they've lived in the same town for many years, John Edwards and John Butcher didn't play together until 1997 - in a trio with Pat Thomas at the Room at the Top.
Since then, they have worked in many contexts - but principally as a duo, releasing music recorded at the FMP Festival, the Freedom of the City Festival, and the Joan Miro Foundation.
Passionate, involving music, at the same time so carefully detailed and, dare I say, elegant.
"weightless" BRAIDA / EDWARDS / SPERA / BUTCHER - Rome 2007 - © Alessandro Carpentieri Their Anglo/Italian quartet Weightless with Fabrizio Spera & Alberto Braida has released the CD A Brush with Dignity. Freedom of the City 2003 - small groups
order CD via Emanem. Recorded at the Conway Hall on the night programmed by Martin Davidson.
Saxophone and double bass duos can't get better than John Butcher and John Edwards', especially when they explore the realms of droning resonance and dark-alley polyphony while knotting fingers and tongue in complex marvellous new languages; in that sense their Spokes could be the top of this selection.
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