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	John Butcher - Invisible Ear - Stylus Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Butcher’s pursuit of extended techniques has yielded and continues to yield, as indicated by this most recent solo outing, a treasure trove of unfathomable timbral and dynamic possibilities for an instrument whose role in experimental music seems to consistently teeter on the verge of stagnation.
		Butcher’s reawakened interest in close-miking and feedback techniques — he had previously experimented with their usage in the early 1980s — owes much to his recent work in electronically augmented groups such as Polwechsel and collaborations with other computerists and real-time manipulators.
		Fortunately for listeners, Butcher peppers his single-minded pursuits with an ample dose of surprise, playing in the middle ground between rationality and spontaneity with a grace that spares the record from the maladies of improvised music’s dreaded “one track, one trick” syndrome.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=140 (792 words)

	Monitor Online - About our cartoonist, John Butcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Our cartoonist John Butcher, who came to Australia from Canada 17 years ago, has been drawing cartoons for Monitor since, well, last century.
		John joined the UC staff as a research officer with the School of Business and Government only in February 2004.
		John, whose political cartoons appear in the Green Left Weekly, has had a cartoon in the past four exhibitions, starting with the original Bringing Down the House at Old Parliament House.
	www.canberra.edu.au /monitor/downtime/butcher.htm (241 words)

	EMANEM 4045: JOHN BUTCHER
		Butcher is quite eager to take a simple idea and gradually build it through time and space until it acquires special meaning.
		Butcher's sound (especially on the soprano saxophone) tends to be deliberate, understated, and delicate.
		Butcher, however, is further removed from jazz concerns and more directly involved with the physical nature of his instrument, especially its timbres.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4045.html (2390 words)

	Rambles: Evan Parker, Lines Burnt in Light, John Butcher & Gerry Hemmingway
		Evan Parker and John Butcher are, put simply, two of the very finest saxophonists of their respective generations (not quite a generation separates them, to be entirely pedantic).
		Butcher's music springs from the free improv experiments of the players of Parker's generation, but in no way does it sound as if it derives from the older man's approach.
		As a solo performer, Butcher is compelling; in duet -- a format he has favoured of late, if recent releases are anything to go by -- his ability to function depends largely on the degree of comprehension he receives from his partner.
	www.rambles.net /parker_lines02.html (753 words)

	John Butcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The long term trio, with John Russell and Phil Durrant, formed in 1984 and has released a studio LP Conceits and two live CDs, Concert moves and The scenic route.
		Butcher has had a fruitful musical relationship with two singers: Vanessa Mackness whom he first performed with on Derek Bailey's 1990 London Company Week, and Phil Minton.
		John Butcher solo concert and interview, Houston TX, 20 March 2002.
	www.shef.ac.uk /~ps/efi/mbutcher.html (1450 words)

	Rev. Samuel John Butcher
		The death of the Rev. Samuel J. Butcher, the much-esteemed vicar of Weston Beggard, near Hereford, occured with painful sadness during Sunday night, and the news has been heard throughout a wide district with very sincere regret.
		Mr Butcher, who was about 62 years of age, had discharged the duty of vicar of Weston Beggard for about twelve years, and previously was for some years curate in charge of Westhide.
		John J. Platts of Forest Hill, London, and Mr.
	www.zimdocs.btinternet.co.uk /fh/sjbutcher.html (533 words)

	John Butcher \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Sinker specialist Butcher was drafted four times before signing as a first-rounder with Texas.
		Although he one-hit the Royals (8/16/83), he did not establish himself as a regular starter until he was traded to the Twins in 1983 as part of the Gary Ward deal.
		He was 13-11 and 11-14 in two years in Minnesota before suffering a career-ending arm injury.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/B/Butcher_John.stm (61 words)

	icCoventry - When will our hurricane holiday nightmare end?
		John Butcher, his partner Ann, daughter Alison Pearce and 11-year-old granddaughter Rebecca were rushed away from the Catalonia Riviera resort in Puerto Aventuras, 100 miles south of Cancun, when Hurricane Wilma battered Mexico, Cuba and Florida.
		John, aged 60, a retired director at Courtaulds, 67-year-old Ann, a retired teacher, IT consultant Alison, 37, and Bablake School pupil Rebecca queued for 14 hours to check their baggage in as they fled Mexico.
		John said: "There was obviously a lot of people much worse off than us and we were quite lucky that all we experienced of the actual hurricane was wind and rain.
	iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=16342367%26method=full%26siteid=50003%26headline=when%2dwill%2dour%2dhurricane%2dholiday%2dnightmare%2dend%2d-name_page.html (545 words)

	Mulhouse 2003 - Gerry Hemingway / John Butcher
		The duet of John Butcher and Gerry Hemingway bewitched the Chapelle Saint Jean.
		Butcher is locked up in extreme concentration, sometimes seeming in levitation to offer unheard-of sonorities - constantly in a swarming of sounds, extracted from an altogether traditional kit by Hemingway, who is apparently more relaxed, but who takes care by attentive listening to react to the least sudden start of his companion.
		Butcher s'enferme dans une concentration extrtrême, semblant parfois en lévitation pour offrir des sonorités inouïes, soutenu par un fourmillement de sons (extraits d'une batterie somme toute classique) par Hemingway qui est apparemment plus décontracté mais qui prend le soin d'une écoute attentive pour réagir au moindre soubresaut de son compagnon de scène.
	www.johnbutcher.org.uk /hem_mulhouse.html (721 words)

	CMT.com : John Butcher/Phil Durrant : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Butcher had in mind to become a physicist and actually began his Ph.D. before turning to music full-time.
		In 1982, in his early thirties, Butcher abandoned his thesis on the theoretical properties of charmed quarks and decided to turn professional and to do it in the realm of creative music.
		In the 1990s, Butcher split his time between structured improvisations within groups (Chris Burn's ensemble, the London Improvisers Orchestra, Polwechsel which he joined in 1997), free improv in small groups, and solo work.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/butcher_john/bio.jhtml (538 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - John Butcher *
		But when Butcher catches hold of an extended technique, he rarely lets go of it, and many of these pieces focus on noises rather than melodies.
		Many of these pieces have a scientific feel (Butcher has a background in physics; perhaps his musical and scientific studies come from the same parts of his personality), in that they sound as if they were constructed to explore the saxophone rather than to serve any traditionally emotional purpose.
		Butcher's consistently rigorous approach, his strange sense of phrasing and his odd vocabulary of sounds make 13 Imaginary Numbers compelling, and an excellent-sounding recording drives his point home.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1476 (432 words)

	Diapazon: SIMPLY IN THEIR WORDS JOHN BUTCHER
		John survives as he knows what he has to say through his music is needed in this day and age of boredom and complacency.
		This is an e-mail interview I'd conducted with John Butcher in March of 2003.
		John Butcher: The recordings span a bit over 10 years now, so the approaches have obviously evolved and changed over that time.
	www.diapazon.pl /PelnaWiadomosc.php?bn=Artykuly&Id=161 (2529 words)

	GROB429 John Butcher Phil Minton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Butcher and Phil Minton are two regulars, two internationally celebrated greats of the London free music scene.
		Both have their roots in jazz-Phil Minton as a singer and trumpeter, strongly inspired by Chet Baker and John Butcher as a saxophone player in the Cool Jazz tradition.
		John Butcher has completely absorbed his influences, if that's what they were, into his playing.
	www.churchofgrob.com /Churchofgrob/CATALOG/Grob429/grob429.html (437 words)

	Jazz Artist Biography - John Butcher@ jazzreview.com
		John Butcher was born in Brighton, England and has lived in London since the late 1970s.
		Butcher started playing the saxophone at Surrey University, where he was studying physics - and his first concerts were in an avant rock group.
		Butcher later played in a number of Company Weeks; released a trio CD with Bailey and the tuba player Oren Marshall; and has two live duo pieces with Bailey on Vortices and Angels (2000).
	www.jazzreview.com /articledetails.cfm?ID=2628 (837 words)

	John Butcher - some collaborations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Toronto based duo met John Butcher at the Music Gallery for a recording session in May 2002.
		John Butcher and Derek Bailey first played in duo around 1989, at the Red Rose Club - and Butcher then took part in the 1990 and 1992 London Company weeks.
		Bailey uncorks some of his most exacting and fearsomely paced playing, forcing Butcher, ordinarily the most orderly of improvisers and by inclination a miniaturist, to think in terms of waves and convoluted tangles of notes.
	www.johnbutcher.org.uk /Various.html (600 words)

	EMANEM 4049: JOHN BUTCHER with DEREK BAILEY & RHODRI DAVIES
		Butcher's playing is full of rough-scrubbed textures and sharp-edged attack used to spray cascading lines punctuated with carefully wrought spaces and quiet, fluttering ebbs.
		Butcher's pairing with harpist, Rhodri Davies offers a bit of counterpoint to his duets with Bailey while the musicians' also stretch their instruments capabilities to the max.
		The Butcher and Bailey set is much more aggressive and intense, with the saxophonist squawking and jutting forth his unique blend of bird-like bursts, and the guitarist performing in his unique, inimitable style that eschews convention.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4049.html (2830 words)

	John Butcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The night before his performance, London Saxophonist/Composer John Butcher will hold a master class for local musicians interested in improvised and adventurous new music.
		John Butcher lives in London and has played the saxophone for about 25 years.
		Butcher led the group through many exercises as well as coaching ensembles on cohesiveness and stepping out of their instrumental roles.
	www.newmusiccoop.org /past/wk_John_Butcher.php (362 words)

	CD Baby: JOHN BUTCHER: 13 Friendly Numbers
		John Butcher appeared on six records, beginning with the 1984 LP "Fonetiks, before he first released "Thirteen Friendly Numbers" on his own Acta label in 1992.
		But the disc is still something of a debut; it is the first document of his peculiar language for solo saxophone, which he had fashioned by purging his vocabulary of the instrument's familiar sounds and jazz-associated gestures, and filling the space with carefully selected sounds located at the periphery of instrumental control.
		Butcher's inspirations were as singular as his sounds.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/johnbutcher (274 words)

	John Butcher
		John Butcher stands alone and still on the stage, holds his tenor saxophone, stares into space, takes a breath and begins to play.
		"English saxophonist John Butcher long ago tossed out 90% of his instrument's conventional vocabulary and created a highly individual dialect from the sounds that were left.
		"John Butcher's solo was revelatory, his tenor an ensemble in itself - held aloft by circular breathing, the multiple trills and multiphonics added and subtracted strata from a twisting complex of voices with astounding control, interspersed with occasional lyrical irruptions."
	www.gerryhemingway.com /butcher.html (1217 words)

	John Boos Butcher Blocks
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	www.premiumhg.com /PHG_Store/Boos_Butcher_Blocks.html (596 words)

	John Butcher Baseball Statistics by Baseball Almanac
		John Butcher was born on Friday, March 8 1957, in Glendale, California.
		Butcher was 24 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 8, 1980, with the Texas Rangers.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive John Butcher baseball statistics page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=butchjo01 (280 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - John Butcher *
		Though his earlier work embraced a traditional jazz outlook, Butcher has taken great strides in moving further and further afield from the conventions of both jazz and improv musics.
		Butcher uses amplification with confidence and bravado, manipulating the ensuing feedback in much the same manner as an electric guitarist, to twist and bend each note into an indecipherable aural dialect.
		Both amplification and multi-tracking are combined in “The Importance Of Gossip”, though the track is far too short to leave a definite impression; rather Butcher appears to be teasing the listener with the sound of his future.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1033 (499 words)

	John Butcher & Gerry Hemingway
		The pairing between the highly abstract, microtonal saxophones of John Butcher and the more conventionally loquacious (if no less inventive) Gerry Hemingway was something of a surprise at the time - it's much more taken-for-granted now that they've come off their second tour together.
		Butcher and Hemingway are free improvisers of the highest order and their collaboration is unique and wonderful.
		Butcher continues to distance himself and his music from the rigid strictures of traditional jazz.
	www.gerryhemingway.com /butchhem.html (2216 words)

	John Boos Butcher Block Carts
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	www.niftykitchen.com /site/339522/page/77975 (1406 words)

	John Butcher \| Invisible Ear
		In the case of this ambitious new solo saxophone recording, the multitimbral quality of Butcher's horn gets a boost from close miking (four of twelve tracks), amplification/feedback (six), and multitracking (three).
		In the absence of amplification, Butcher's tone is surprisingly similar.
		Personnel: John Butcher: soprano and tenor saxophones, Korg synthesizer (on 7).
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=12300 (440 words)

	John Boos Butcher Block Furniture
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	johnboos.125west.com (116 words)

	BBC - Experimental Review - John Butcher, 13 Friendly Numbers
		However, history is catching up with Butcher; much of it now sounds more familiar than it did on its first release.
		The end result is a greatly expanded vocabulary for saxophone (a vocabulary that Butcher still continues to expand, year on year, as seen on his recent Invisible Ear solo album); that vocabulary readily includes multiphonics (as on the opener, "Buccinator's Outing"), overblowing, extremes of the dynamic range, and multi-tracking.
		Unlike an older generation that came to improvisation via free jazz, Butcher cut any vestigial ties with the vocabulary of jazz saxophone; this is improvised saxophone, not jazz.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/experimental/reviews/butcher_thirteen.shtml (526 words)

	John Butcher
		Soprano and tenor saxophonist John Butcher once explained in an interview with the Web zine Paris Transatlantic that he finds his material "right at the border of the instrument--the reed--seizing up and breaking down." Eschewing his horns' familiar vocabularies, the 48-year-old Englishman manipulates an arsenal of squeaks, squawks, and finely abraded staccato multiphonics.
		Despite working "on the edge of controllable sound" (as he also puts it), Butcher always seems in perfect control of his instruments.
		On Invisible Ear (Fringes), his fourth and latest solo record, Butcher treats the microphone no less harshly than he does his saxophones--not content to play into the thing, he overloads it by pushing it down his sax's bell.
	www.482music.com /musicians/john-butcher.html (195 words)

	John Butcher Interview
		What was characteristic playing with John was that he would make it clear to the audience that this was the only chance they'd get to hear this music: he'd get up and tell people to sit down and be quiet.
		Playing with John Stevens from about 1992 got me interested in drums again, because he had such a beautiful sense of how to propel music from the drums whilst not forcing you to play anything specific, and leaving a lot of transparency.
		I think that came from his choice of kit, very miniaturised, a lot of it was sound without much sustain, so other sounds have a chance to come through, and – this is harder to pinpoint – his sense of propulsion, which could be suggested by quite small means.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/interviews/butcher.html (5465 words)

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