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JOHN BUTCHER & JOHN EDWARDS
john butcher and john edwards photo
© pere pratdesaba - fundació joan miró, barcelona.


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FOTC 2003 :: Optic :: Hit and Run



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 two CDs.
An earlier quartet with Chris Burn and Rhodri Davies released the CD The First Two Gigs .

Passionate, involving music, at the same time so carefully detailed and, dare I say, elegant.
Massimo Ricci - Touching Extremes


john butcher, fabrizio spera, alberto braida, john edwards photo

BRAIDA / EDWARDS / SPERA / BUTCHER - Rome 2007 - © Alessandro Carpentieri

Italian percussionist Fabrizio Spera joined Butcher and Edwards for a London concert in 2002.

They have since played in Italy, Holland and France, and in 2005 formed a quartet with pianist Alberto Braida.

Freedom of the City 2003 - small groups
FOTC cover
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One track (18:55) on a double CD compilation from London's Freedom of the City festival.
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.
Massimo Ricci - Touching Extremes


Optic

Optic cover
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Live at L'Archiduc, Brussels: 2001 and Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona: 2002

Steve Beresford's liner notes

read :: Bagatellen :: Jazz Weekly :: allmusic


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Hit and Run

Hit and Run cover Recorded at the FMP Total Music Meeting, Berlin: 1999
John Edwards & John Butcher
John Edwards & Paul Dunmall
Butcher/Dunmall/Edwards

Steve Lake's liner notes

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