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Phil Durrant / John Butcher / John Russell
butcher, durrant and russell
© harald mannsberger - nickelsdorf konfrontationen, austria

A powerful zero-degree music that doesn't know how to pander, even to itself.
New Musical Express

The Scenic Route | Concert Moves | Conceits

Richard Cook's x-mas 1987 Sunday Times piece


Phil Durrant and John Butcher met, in 1984, at one of Phil Wachsmann's Saturday afternoon Morley College workshops.
They then began rehearsing with John Russell, and playing on the largely musician-run circuit of London venues.
ACTA records was set up to release their 1987 LP Conceits.

A reviewer at an early concert in Zürich wrote "Just as no-one understands the British humour, no-one understood this trio's music". Fortunately he was wrong, and the trio continued performing, touring and developing for more than another 10 years.

The Scenic Route
the scenic route cover
order CD from Emanem.
Two live recordings from 1998
Musique Action, Vandoeuvre, France and the Red Rose Club, London

all about jazz (1) | all about jazz (2) | metropolis


Concert Moves
Concert Moves cover
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German concert recordings.
Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen: 1992 and c.u.b.a., Munster: 1991

allmusic

watch a video of part of this concert


Conceits

 conceits moves cover Recorded at South Hill Park Studio: 1987
LP released on ACTA.
Cover painting and design by Jamie Muir.



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