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Tim Berne
Background information
Born (1954-10-16) October 16, 1954 (age 69)
Syracuse, New York, U.S.
GenresAvant-garde jazz
Occupation(s)Musician
InstrumentSaxophones
Years active1979–present
LabelsEmpire, Soul Note, Columbia, JMT, Screwgun, Thirsty Ear, ECM, Intakt
Websitescrewgunrecords.com

Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954)[1] is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner. His primary instruments are the alto and baritone saxophones.

Biography

Tim Berne

Berne was born in Syracuse, New York, United States.[1] He has said that he had no interest in playing an instrument until he attended Lewis & Clark College in Oregon. Hearing the album Dogon A.D. (1972) by Julius Hemphill turned his attention toward jazz. He was a fan of rhythm and blues, and it seemed to him that Hemphill was playing jazz with the soulfulness of R&B. In 1974, he went to New York to find Hemphill, who gave him saxophone lessons and advice on how to manage his career.[1] Berne started the record label Empire in 1979.[2]

For Empire, he recorded four albums with avant-garde jazz musicians such as John Carter, Alex Cline, Nels Cline, Olu Dara, Vinny Golia, Paul Motian, and Ed Schuller.[1] His next two albums appeared on Soul Note in the early 1980s.[1] In these sessions he worked with trumpeter Herb Robertson. He then got a contract with Columbia and recorded with Robertson, Hank Roberts, and Bill Frisell.[1] After two albums, he signed with JMT, a label known for avant-garde jazz. In the 1990s, he recorded in the trio, Miniature, with Roberts and Joey Baron,[1] and in the band Caos Totale with Django Bates, Mark Dresser, Marc Ducret, Steve Swell, and Bobby Previte. He led a trio with Michael Formanek and Jim Black, then added Chris Speed for a quartet. PolyGram bought JMT and closed it. This motivated Berne to start Screwgun Records as the outlet for his albums.[2]

He is one-third of the group BBC (Berne/Black/Cline) with Jim Black and Nels Cline of Wilco. The group released a critically acclaimed album called The Veil in 2011.[3]

Groups

  • Miniature (Joey Baron, Hank Roberts)
  • Caos Totale (Django Bates, Mark Dresser, Marc Ducret, Bobby Previte, Herb Robertson, Steve Swell)
  • Bloodcount (Jim Black, Marc Ducret, Michael Formanek, Chris Speed)
  • Big Satan (Marc Ducret, Tom Rainey)
  • Hard Cell (Tom Rainey, Craig Taborn)
  • Science Friction (Marc Ducret, Tom Rainey, Craig Taborn)
  • Paraphrase (Drew Gress, Tom Rainey)
  • Buffalo Collision (Ethan Iverson, David King, Hank Roberts)
  • BBC Trio (Jim Black, Nels Cline)
  • Snakeoil (Marc Ducret, Matt Mitchell, Oscar Noriega, Ches Smith, formerly Ryan Ferreira)
  • Broken Shadows (Reid Anderson, David King, Chris Speed)

Discography

As leader/co-leader

with Bill Frisell

with Miniature

with Caos Totale

with Michael Formanek and Jeff Hirshfield

  • 1993 Loose Cannon (Soul Note)

with Marilyn Crispell

with Michael Formanek

  • 1998 Ornery People (Little Brother)

with Hank Roberts

  • 1998 Cause & Reflect (Level Green)

with Bloodcount

with Paraphrase

with Big Satan

with Hardcell

with Herb Robertson, Marc Ducret and the Copenhagen Art Ensemble

with Science Friction

  • 2002 Science Friction (Screwgun)
  • 2003 The Sublime And (Thirsty Ear)
  • 2007 Mind Over Friction (Screwgun) compilation of two previous Science Friction releases
  • 2020 Science Friction +size (Screwgun)

with ARTE Quartett

with Buffalo Collision

  • 2008 Duck (Screwgun)

with BB&C

with Bruno Chevillon

  • 2011 Old and Unwise (Clean Feed)

with Snakeoil

with Matt Mitchell

  • 2018 Angel Dusk (Screwgun)
  • 2020 1 (Screwgun)
  • 2020 Spiders (Out of Your Head)
  • 2022 One More, Please (Intakt)

with Broken Shadows

  • 2019 Broken Shadows (Newvelle, vinyl only; re-released on CD and digital with two additional tracks in 2021 on Intakt)
  • 2020 Broken Shadows Live (Screwgun)

with Nasheet Waits

  • 2020 The Coandă Effect (Relative Pitch)
  • 2022 Tangled (Screwgun)

with Gregg Belisle-Chi

  • 2022 Mars (Intakt)
  • 2022 Zone One (Screwgun)

As sideman

With Ray Anderson

With Enten Eller

  • Melquiades (Splasc(H), 1999)
  • Auto da Fe (Splasc(H), 2001)

With Umberto Petrin

  • Ellessi (Splasc(H), 1999)

With Jazzophone Compagnie

  • Mosaiques (Yolk, 2000)

With Nels Cline

With Marc Ducret

  • Tower Vol. 2 (Ayler, 2011)
  • Tower Bridge (Ayler, 2014)

With Mr. Rencore

  • Intollerant (Auand, 2011)

With Simon Fell

  • Positions & Descriptions (Clean Feed, 2011)

With Figure 8

With Michael Formanek

  • Extended Animation (Enja, 1992)
  • Low Profile (Enja, 1994)
  • Nature of the Beast (Enja, 1997)
  • The Rub and Spare Change (ECM, 2010)
  • Small Places (ECM, 2012)
  • The Distance (ECM, 2016)
  • Even Better (Intakt, 2019)
  • Pre-Apocalyptic (Out Of Your Head, 2020)

With Vinny Golia

  • Compositions for Large Ensemble (Nine Winds, 1984)
  • Facts of Their Own Lives (Nine Winds, 1986)

With Drew Gress

  • Spin & Drift (Premonition, 2001)
  • 7 Black Butterflies (Premonition, 2005)
  • The Irrational Numbers (Premonition, 2007)
  • The Sky Inside (Pirouet, 2013)

With Mark Helias

  • Split Image (Enja, 1985)
  • The Current Set (Enja, 1986)

With Julius Hemphill

With Ingrid Laubrock

With Ivo Perelman

  • (D)ivo (2022)

With Hank Roberts

With Herb Robertson

With Samo Salamon & Tom Rainey

  • Duality (Samo Records, 2012)

With George Schuller

  • Hellbent (Playscape, 2002)

With Ches Smith

  • Hammered (Clean Feed, 2013)
  • International Hoohah (For Tune, 2014)

With Spring Heel Jack

  • Masses (Thirsty Ear, 2001)

With David Torn

  • Prezens (ECM, 2005)
  • Slipped On A Bar (Screwgun, 2009)
  • Son Of Goldfinger (ECM, 2019)
  • Son Of Goldfinger (Congratulations To You) (Screwgun, 2020)
  • xFORM (Screwgun, 2020)
  • Ozmir (Screwgun, 2022)

With Stefan Winter

  • The Little Trumpet (JMT, 1986)

With Yōsuke Yamashita

  • Ways of Time (Verve, 1995)

With John Zorn

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who’s Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.
  2. ^ a b Lynch, Dave. "Tim Berne". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  3. ^ Fordham, John (28 July 2011). "Berne/Black/Cline/BB & C: The Veil". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
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