POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS | Making of the Score with Daniel Blumberg YouTube video by MUBI

It was very enjoyable to work with Daniel Blumberg and Seymour Wright on this: Daniel's composition for Gianfranco Rosi's beautiful documentary, based around Naples and Pompei - "Below the Clouds". On release soon.
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Steve Beresford John Butcher Max Eastley - Some Uncharted Evening

Steve Beresford piano and objects
John Butcher acoustic and amplified saxophones
Max Eastley arc: electroacoustic monochord, friction drum, percussion, piston flute

September 14, 2025
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Thanks Ian. The Oto evenings felt good to me.

Thank you !

Playing two concerts at Oto next week with Last Dream of the Morning (me, John Edwards & Mark Sanders). Cath Roberts will be joining us on electronics for the 2nd night.
Tues 15 & Wed 16 July.
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This is not Speculation, by John Butcher & John Edwards 4 track album

New release - a duo with John Edwards - first for many years!
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Last October the WIRE published a 6 page "primer" looking at around 25 of my releases from 1984 to now. I'm grateful to Seymour Wright who took on the listening and writing challenge.
I've just made it available as a free download here:
www.johnbutcher.org.uk/downloads/Wi...

thanks!

Thanks for the photo John - is it ok to use online? We don't have any of us playing together.

The Glass Changes Shape, by Chris Corsano, John Butcher, Florian Stoffner 9 track album

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John Butcher / Florian Stoffner / Chris Corsano-The Glass Changes Shape (Relative Pitch, 2024) Read the review of John Butcher / Florian Stoffner / Chris Corsano-The Glass Changes Shape (Relative Pitch, 2024) on The Free Jazz Collective

Thanks to Martin Schray for listening and writing about our trio release. Cover art features a painting by Joe Williamson.
"a musical personification of life ... The album is a lesson in philosophy, communication and poetry."
www.freejazzblog.org/2025/01/john...

Thanks for the photos John.

Four reviews of recent albums of free-form music in the latest #InternationalTimes,
featuring #JohnButcher, #BurkhardBeins and other artists.

John Butcher at 70 at Cafe Oto - UK Jazz News John Butcher, maverick, groundbreaking saxophonist célèbre, celebrated his 70 years in style, with a three day residency at Cafe Oto. I caught the second night, the only one which featured a rare solo...

Some nice drawings (and words) from Geoff Winston. I haven't felt sure about playing solo recently ... so I appreciate his response ....
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