JOHN BUTCHER
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • United Kingdom

For John Butcher, Andy Moor & Thomas Lehn trio   Thermal search under "Thermal". For John Butcher, John Edwards & Mark Sanders trio  Last Dream of the Morning search under "Last Dream of the Morning". John Butcher was born in Brighton, England and has lived in London since the late 1970s. After classical piano lessons at school, he started playing the saxophone at Surrey University, where he was studying physics. His first concerts were on keyboards in the ‘avant’ (for want of a better term) rock group Habilis. Hearing musicians like John Surman, Stan Tracey and Louis Moholo triggered an enthusiasm for jazz, and he started learning and playing in various groups - often with pianist Chris Burn; and sometimes with his brother, Phil Butcher, on double bass. In 1977 he began a Ph.D in the Theoretical Physics department of Imperial College. It was published in 1982 as "Spin effects in read more...