Alto saxophonist Tim Berne likes to make a small group sound big. "I like the intimacy and the fact that everybody's really involved all the time. Mind Over Friction, a reissue of a live album of his ...
With the sixth entry in their discography, alto saxophonist Tim Berne offers a progress report of sorts on his band Snakeoil. The Deceptive 4 Live collects together two cracking sets, one from a brace ...
Tuesday night saxophonist Tim Berne performs with a top-notch quartet called Broken Shadows that’s devoted to the music of three brilliant reedists from Fort Worth, Texas: Ornette Coleman, Dewey ...
Most of saxophonist Tim Berne’s work this decade has prominently featured electric and electronic instrumentation (often courtesy of keyboardist Craig Taborn and guitarist Marc Ducret), and until one ...
Better than: Waiting for Tibetan independence. Given the charges of charlatanism that have at times plagued jazz expressionists, it would seem that altoist Tim Berne was engaging in a bit of mischief ...
About two years ago, guitarist David Torn, saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Ches Smith were playing a gig at the Vortex Jazz Club in London. Torn had some spacious guitar loops going, and the three ...
The tongue-in-cheek band name makes sense — think of Lucifer the charmer, dark and dangerous but also smooth-talking and larger than life. Berne often gets pegged as a Sturm und Drang troublemaker, ...
Saxophonist and composer Tim Berne and his group Snakeoil make compelling, complex music, but his career arc is simple. He’s an outsider’s outsider who has found success and recognition after many ...
Typically, the band known as Sun of Goldfinger exists purely in the moment. Consisting of saxophonist Tim Berne, guitarist David Torn and drummer Ches Smith, the trio finds these world-class ...