Screwgun Records is a jazz record label founded by saxophonist Tim Berne in 1996.[1] 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.[2]

Screwgun Records
Founded1996 (1996)
FounderTim Berne
GenreJazz
Country of originU.S.
LocationBrooklyn, New York
Official websitewww.screwgunrecords.com

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.[1] 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.[1][3]

Discography

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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 Box 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 Box Set
2007 sc70018 Tim Berne's Science Friction Mind Over Friction 3-CD Box Set compiling Science Friction and The Sublime And
2007 sc70019 Tim Berne's Bloodcount Seconds 2 CD + DVD Box 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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Fitzell, Sean Patrick (31 December 2005). "Tim Berne's Screwgun Records: By Him, For You". All About Jazz. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  2. ^ Eye, Number 42, Volume 11, Winter 2001.
  3. ^ Lynch, Dave. "Tim Berne". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
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