# Screwgun Records

Screwgun Records is a jazz record label founded by saxophonist Tim Berne in 1996. Most releases on the label have been by Berne, though some have been by Berne's associates and bandmates. Steve Byram has designed and illustrated the artwork for many of the label's albums.
After attending college in Oregon, Berne moved to New York City in the 1970s to meet saxophonist Julius Hemphill, whose music had inspired him to become a jazz musician. Hemphill became his mentor, giving him saxophone lessons and helping him find his way in the music business. Berne founded Empire Records in the late 1970s to issue own albums. He released five albums, and his work was noticed by Giovanni Bonandrini, an Italian producer who issued Berne's next two albums on Soul Note. Berne signed with Columbia Records in the 1980s, then recorded for JMT Records until it shut down in 1995. Then Berne founded Screwgun to get control of his work again. Screwgun albums were initially distinguished by their brown, cardboard covers decorated with the line drawings of Steve Byram. The unorthodox artwork fit Berne's unorthodox music and business tactics.

## Discography

| Year released | Catalogue No. | Artist | Title | Notes |
| 1996 | SCREWU 70001 | Tim Berne's Bloodcount | Unwound | 3-CD Box Set - Limited Edition of 2000 |
| 1997 | SCREWU 70002 | Tim Berne's Paraphrase | Visitation Rites | |
| 1997 | SCREWU 70003 | Tim Berne's Bloodcount | Discretion | |
| 1997 | SCREWU 70004 | Tim Berne's Bloodcount | Saturation Point | |
| 1998 | SCREWU 70005 | Marc Ducret | Un Certain Malaise | |
| 1998 | SCREWU 70006 | Michael Formanek | Am I Bothering You? | |
| 1998 | SCREWU 70007 | Django Bates | Quiet Nights | |
| 1998 | SCREWU 70008 | Julius Hemphill | Blue Boyé | 2-CD Box Set rerelease of 1977 album on Mbari Records |
| 1998 | SCREWU 70009 | Tim Berne | The Empire Box | 5-CD Box Set compiling The Five Year Plan, 7X, Spectres, and Songs and Rituals in Real Time |
| 1999 | SCREWU 70010 | Marc Ducret | L'Ombra di Verdi | |
| 1999 | SCREWU 70011 | Tim Berne's Paraphrase | Please Advise | |
| 2001 | SCREWU 012 | Tim Berne and The Copenhagen Art Ensemble with Herb Robertson and Marc Ducret | Open, Coma | 2-CD Set |
| 2002 | SCREWU 013 | Tim Berne | Science Friction | |
| 2004 | sc70014 | Tim Berne's Hard Cell | Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live | |
| 2005 | sc70015 | Tim Berne's Hard Cell | Feign | |
| 2005 | sc70016 | Tim Berne's Paraphrase | Pre-Emptive Denial | |
| 2006 | sc70017 | Tim Berne's Big Satan | Livein Cognito | 2-CD Set |
| 2007 | sc70018 | Tim Berne's Science Friction | Mind Over Friction | 3-CD Set compiling Science Friction and The Sublime And |
| 2007 | sc70019 | Tim Berne's Bloodcount | Seconds | 2 CD + DVD Set |
| 2008 | none | Buffalo Collision | (Duck) | |
| 2009 | none | Prezens | Slipped On A Bar | Digital-only release |
| 2015 | none | Tim Berne, Steve Byram, Snakeoil | Spare/Anguis Oleum | Limited Edition Book by Steve Byram (Spare) and live CD by Snakeoil (Anguis Oleum) |
| 2017 | none | Matt Mitchell, Tim Berne | Forage | Composed by Tim Berne, performed by Matt Mitchell |
| 2018 | none | Tim Berne, Matt Mitchell | Angel Dusk | |
| 2020 | none | Tim Berne | Sacred Vowels | Digital-only release |
| 2020 | none | David Torn | Fur | Digital-only release |
| 2020 | none | Tim Berne 7 | Adobe Probe | Digital-only release |
| 2020 | none | Hank Roberts, Tim Berne | Cause And Reflect | Digital-only remastered reissue of 1998 release |
| 2020 | none | Broken Shadows | Broken Shadows Live | Digital-only release |
| 2020 | none | Matt Mitchell, Tim Berne | 1 | Digital-only release |
| 2020 | none | Sun Of Goldfinger | Congratulations To You | Digital-only release |
| 2020 | none | Prezens | xForm | Digital-only release |
| 2020 | none | Prezens | Slipped On A Bar | Digital-only reissue of 2009 release |
| 2020 | none | Hard Cell | The Cosmos | Digital-only release |
| 2020 | none | Science Friction | +Size | Digital-only release |
| 2021 | none | Hard Cell | Sensitive | Digital-only release |
| 2021 | none | Bloodcount | Attention Spam | Digital-only release |
| 2021 | none | Bloodcount | 5 | Digital-only release |
| 2022 | none | Tim Berne, Nasheet Waits | Tangled | Digital-only release |
| 2022 | none | Sun Of Goldfinger | Ozmir | Digital-only release |
| 2022 | none | Tim Berne, Ryan Ferreira, Michael Formanek, Ches Smith | Decay | Digital-only release |
| 2022 | none | Tim Berne, Gregg Belisle-Chi | Zone One | Digital-only release |
| 2023 | Screwgun/OOYH 001 | Marc Ducret | Palm Sweat | Joint release with Out Of Your Head Records |
| 2023 | none | The Sunny Four | Mystic | Digital-only release |
| 2024 | none | David Torn, Tom Rainey, Tim Berne, Trevor Dunn | Disco Tent/Ravens Low and Ready 2 | Digital-only release |
| 2024 | none | Science Friction | No Tamales On Wednesday | Digital-only release |
| 2024 | none | Oceans And | Lucid/Still | Digital-only release |
| 2024 | none | Aurora Nealand, Mark Helias, Tim Berne | Live At The 188 Club | Digital-only release |
| 2024 | none | Tim Berne with Bill Frisell | Live In Someplace Nice | Digital-only release |
| 2025 | Screwgun/OOYH 002 | Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Gregg Belisle-Chi | Yikes Too | Joint release with Out Of Your Head Records |
| 2025 | none | Snakeoil | Snakeoil OK | Digital-only release |