if there is a common theme running through this festival's 
patchwork, it is our love of the solo performance. 
next to evan parker, john butcher has asserted himself as 
one of britain's major saxophone voices. peforming solo 
as well as in duos or in various large groups, he has revolutionized 
the saxophone's language and defined a new standard of playing 
so that it is now appropriate to speak of the john butcher school.