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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 most often as a duo, releasing music recorded at the FMP Festival, the Freedom of the City Festival, and the Joan Miro Foundation.
Optic 
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Hit and Run Steve Lake's liner notes Freedom of the City 2003 - small groups 
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Saxophone and double bass duos can't get better than Butcher and John, 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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