John Butcher (1954 - )

Male Person - United Kingdom British saxophonist

Releases (13)

Official

Album - Live

  1. London & Cologne Saxophone Solos 1996

Album

  1. Music on Seven Occasions: Selected Duos and Solos 2000
  2. Hit And Run 13 Sep 2001
  3. Fixations (14) 2001
  4. Invisible Ear 2003
  5. 13 Friendly Numbers 04 Jun 2004
  6. Cavern With Nightlife Sep 2004
  7. The Geometry of Sentiment 2007
  8. Resonant Spaces 2008
  9. Bell Trove Spools 13 Nov 2012

Single

  1. The Importance of Gossip Mar 2002

Other - Live

  1. Vortices & Angels May 2001

Relationships (7)

Member Of

  1. Last Dream of the Morning (2016) original, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  2. John Butcher Group original
  3. Polwechsel (1997)
  4. Anemone
  5. The Contest of Pleasures
  6. Chris Burn’s Ensemble
  7. The Cortet

Recordings by (110)

  1. Some kind of memory 9:39 (1996)
  2. A Thing Or Two 13:44 (1996)
  3. Shrinkdown 7:46 (1996)
  4. Almost secret 6:18 (1996)
  5. Continuo 6:09 (1996)
  6. Schism 2:59 (1996)
  7. Our man in action 5:17 (1996)
  8. Close to reason 4:14 (1996)
  9. Phlogisten 5:16 (2000)
  10. Caloric 4:15 (2000)
  11. Late Impromptu 3:46 (2000)
  12. 1rst Singularity 3:25 (2000)
  13. 2nd Singularity 2:46 (2000)
  14. Routemasters 4:31 (2000)
  15. Sea They Think They Hear 3:38 (2000)
  16. Cgil Thread Dream 4:41 (2000)
  17. Anomalies in the Customs of the Day 7:19 (2000)
  18. The Step Sequence 4:32 (2000)
  19. The Late Approach 3:26 (2000)
  20. The Interior Design 3:01 (2000)
  21. The Only Way Out 3:22 (2000)
  22. 3rd Singularity 2:47 (2000)
  23. 4th Singularity 2:29 (2000)
  24. Cold That Bites 3:10 (2000)
  25. Shadow Play 2:54 (2000)
  26. Clackchat 5:41 (2000)
  27. Gaulstones 35:27 (13 Sep 2001)
  28. Rhymes: Knotted / Plotted / Dotted / Spotted 36:57 (13 Sep 2001)
  29. Hit And Run 5:29 (13 Sep 2001)
  30. Handglass 9:13 (2001)
  31. Angelskin 5:46 (2001)
  32. Timeball 3:38 (2001)
  33. Flyleaf 3:23 (2001)
  34. Five Intentions 8:34 (2001)
  35. Chinese Burn 5:48 (2001)
  36. Gleaming Silks 7:15 (2001)
  37. Bamboo 1:55 (2001)
  38. Opoponax 9:13 (2001)
  39. Silver Parcel 3:16 (2001)
  40. Woodland Drift 3:11 (2001)
  41. First Bottle 3:52 (2001)
  42. Second Bottle 8:11 (2001)
  43. Third Bottle 12:56 (2001)
  44. Last Bottle 6:11 (2001)
  45. The Train and the Gate, Part 1 4:21 (2001)
  46. The Train and the Gate, Part 2 1:34 (2001)
  47. Robusta 5:37 (2001)
  48. Liberica 5:04 (2001)
  49. Almost New 3:35 (2001)
  50. Nearly Art 3:49 (2001)
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On Recordings (50)

Instruments

  1. Spelling E 14:35 Frisque Concordance (1993) saxophone
  2. Spelling B 8:40 Frisque Concordance (1993) saxophone
  3. Spelling D 10:54 Frisque Concordance (1993) saxophone
  4. Spelling A 6:09 Frisque Concordance (1993) saxophone
  5. Spelling C 9:43 Frisque Concordance (1993) saxophone
  6. Flavours B / 1-7 6:33 GrubenKlangOrchester (1994) soprano saxophone
  7. Fragment 7 5:39 GrubenKlangOrchester (1994) soprano saxophone
  8. Trompe-l'oreille 4:14 Butcher, Durrant, Russell (1995) saxophone
  9. Playfair's Axiom 11:11 Butcher, Durrant, Russell (1995) saxophone
  10. The Spread 5:57 Butcher, Durrant, Russell (1995) saxophone
  11. As It Flies 9:36 Butcher, Durrant, Russell (1995) saxophone
  12. Uneasy Options 9:45 Spontaneous Music Ensemble (1995) saxophone
  13. Nostalgesics 8:26 Butcher, Durrant, Russell (1995) saxophone
  14. Stig 25:34 Spontaneous Music Ensemble (1995) saxophone
  15. Glen Called 10:57 Butcher, Durrant, Russell (1995) saxophone
  16. Tape Delight 6:07 Spontaneous Music Ensemble (1995) saxophone
  17. So This Is Official 3:54 Spontaneous Music Ensemble (1995) saxophone
  18. Victim of Sound Bite 3:02 Butcher, Durrant, Russell (1995) saxophone
  19. Spane 5:25 Derek Bailey, John Butcher & Oren Marshall (1997) saxophone
  20. Domestic Melodies 3:46 Derek Bailey, John Butcher & Oren Marshall (1997) saxophone
  21. Room for Breath 7:11 Derek Bailey, John Butcher & Oren Marshall (1997) saxophone
  22. I'd Love a Key 14:16 Derek Bailey, John Butcher & Oren Marshall (1997) saxophone
  23. Out of the Deep 9:32 Derek Bailey, John Butcher & Oren Marshall (1997) saxophone
  24. Breaking Off 2:14 Derek Bailey, John Butcher & Oren Marshall (1997) saxophone
  25. Abode To 7:40 Derek Bailey, John Butcher & Oren Marshall (1997) saxophone
  26. Two-Ribbon Flare 5:17 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  27. Air Made Richer 3:16 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  28. Egratignures 4:54 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  29. Plague-Prism 3:59 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  30. Souse in the Ear 3:15 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  31. Heard as a Boy 2:54 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  32. Fioritura 3:47 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  33. Facula 1:57 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  34. Lumen 5:13 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  35. Vitrious Humor 3:05 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  36. Solfa Fable 3:58 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  37. Chromatic Aberrations 6:03 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone
  38. Candela 0:57 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999) saxophone

Produced

  1. Vitrious Humor 3:05 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  2. Candela 0:57 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  3. Chromatic Aberrations 6:03 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  4. Plague-Prism 3:59 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  5. Air Made Richer 3:16 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  6. Solfa Fable 3:58 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  7. Second Curiosity 4:50 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  8. Lumen 5:13 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  9. Two-Ribbon Flare 5:17 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  10. Heard as a Boy 2:54 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  11. Souse in the Ear 3:15 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)
  12. Contre-Aveaux 3:58 John Butcher & Georg Graewe (1999)

Credited as (67)

  1. John Butcher
  2. John Butcher & Christof Kurzmann
  3. John Butcher, Fred Lonberg-Holm & Michael Zerang
  4. John Butcher & Phil Minton
  5. John Butcher & Derek Bailey
  6. John Butcher & Rhodri Davies
  7. Derek Bailey, John Butcher & Oren Marshall
  8. John Butcher & Phil Durrant
  9. John Butcher / Phil Durrant
  10. John Butcher & John Edwards
  11. John Butcher & Toshimaru Nakamura
  12. Andy Moor, Thomas Lehn & John Butcher
  13. John Butcher & 中村としまる
  14. John Butcher, Miya Masaoka & Gino Robair
  15. Butcher | Masaoka | Robair
  16. Radu Malfatti, John Butcher, Phil Durrant, Paul Lovens & John Russell
  17. AMM with John Butcher
  18. John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury
  19. John Butcher / Mike Hansen / Tomasz Krakowiak
  20. Rhodri Davies / John Butcher
  21. Fred Frith and John Butcher
  22. John Butcher / Paal Nilssen-Love
  23. Phil Minton / John Butcher / Erhard Hirt
  24. John Butcher, Damon Butler & Weasel Walter
  25. John Butcher, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter
  26. John Butcher & Andy Moor
  27. Akio Suzuki, John Butcher
  28. John Butcher, Tony Buck, Magda Mayas, Burkhard Stangl
  29. John Butcher, Tony Buck, Burkhard Stangl
  30. John Butcher, Tony Buck, Magda Mayas
  31. Butcher, Durrant, Lovens, Malfatti, Russell
  32. John Butcher / Gino Robair
  33. Saint Abdullah ft. John Butcher
  34. Steve Beresford & John Butcher
  35. Steve Beresford / John Butcher
  36. John Butcher & Georg Graewe
  37. Butcher, Durrant, Russell
  38. John Butcher / Dylan van der Schyff
  39. Toshimaru Nakamura | John Butcher
  40. Martin Blume, Wilbert De Joode, John Butcher
  41. Paul Dunmall With John Edwards With John Butcher
  42. John Butcher/Eli Keszler
  43. RED Trio + John Butcher
  44. Jim Denley, John Butcher, Chris Burn, Marcio Mattos
  45. John Butcher, Gino Robair, Matthew Sperry
  46. John Butcher / Gino Robair / Matthew Sperry
  47. Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Evan Parker, Tony Marsh, John Edwards & John Butcher
  48. Otomo Yoshihide & John Butcher
  49. Sachiko M & John Butcher
  50. John Butcher & Riccardo La Foresta
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Works (23)

Composed

  1. Acids
  2. Spelling A
  3. Spelling B
  4. Spelling C
  5. Spelling D
  6. Spelling E
  7. Fogs
  8. Grottoes
  9. As It Flies
  10. Playfair's Axiom
  11. The Spread
  12. Nostalgesics
  13. Glen Called
  14. Victim of Sound Bite
  15. Trompe-l'oreille
  16. Sustained
  17. Pachyderm
  18. Empire
  19. Flowers
  20. Track 1.1
  21. Track 1.2
  22. Track 1.3
  23. Track 2

Events (1)

Main Performer At

  1. Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2001

Links (12)

Other Databases

  1. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14160536h
  2. https://d-nb.info/gnd/135256615
  3. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/john-butcher
  4. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92095342
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n92095342

Songkick

  1. https://www.songkick.com/artists/311468

Wikipedia

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Butcher_(musician)

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/199792

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000185412

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/12514679

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699469

BBC Music

  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/0437939d-c9fb-411d-bed1-769810df8567