Dee Byrne

{{Short description|British musician}}

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Dee Byrne is a British saxophonist, composer and improviser working in contemporary jazz, avant-garde and free improvisation. She lives in London.

Biography

Byrne is from Gravesend, Kent.{{Cite web |date=2018-04-02 |title=A band of powerful originality and skilled musicianship |url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/node/48834 |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=Morning Star |language=en}} She now lives in London, where she graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with a Masters in Jazz Performance in 2011.{{Cite web |date=2013-12-28 |title=About me |url=https://deebyrnemusic.com/about/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=Dee Byrne |language=en}} She released two albums with her quintet Entropi before forming her current sextet Outlines.

Discography

=As Entropi=

  • New Era (F-ire, 2015) – with Olie Brice, Andre Canniere, Matt Fisher, and Rebecca Nash{{Cite web |title=Entropi: New Era |url=https://www.jazzwise.com/review/entropi-new-era |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=Jazzwise |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2015-06-04 |title=CD Review: Entropi – New Era |url=https://londonjazznews.com/2015/06/04/cd-review-entropi-new-era/ |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=London Jazz News |language=en-US}}
  • Moment Frozen (Whirlwind, 2017) – with Brice, Canniere, Fisher, and Nash{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=John |date=2017-09-21 |title=Dee Byrne's Entropi: Moment Frozen review – intense, muscular jazz voyage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/21/dee-byrnes-entropi-moment-frozen-review-intense-muscular-jazz-voyage |access-date=2024-10-31 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |date=2017-09-19 |title=Dee Byrne's Entropi: Moment Frozen album review |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/moment-frozen-dee-byrne-whirlwind-recordings-ltd-review-by-roger-farbey |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=All About Jazz |language=en}}

=As Dee Byrne=

  • Outlines (Whirlwind, 2023) – with Olie Brice, Andrew Lisle, Nick Malcolm, Rebecca Nash, and Tom Ward{{Cite web |date=2023-06-22 |title=Dee Byrne – 'Outlines' |url=https://londonjazznews.com/2023/06/22/dee-byrne-outlines/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=London Jazz News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Dee Byrne: Outlines |url=https://www.jazzwise.com/review/dee-byrne-outlines |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=Jazzwise |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Nic |date=2023-09-05 |title=Dee Byrne: Outlines |url=https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2023/09/05/dee-byrne-outlines/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=Jazz Journal |language=en-GB}}

=Other collaborations=

  • Disembark! (Luminous, 2020) – with Cath Roberts
  • Going Down The Well (Unit Records, 2020) – with MoonMot
  • Motherboard Pinball (Efpi, 2021) – with Oli Kuster and Cyrill Ferrari
  • Live at Cafe Oto (Luminous, 2022) – solo album
  • Algorithmic Quotidian (Efpi, 2022) – with Oli Kuster and Cyrill Ferrari
  • 350 Million Herring (Enja, 2023) – with MoonMot

= As band member =

  • Lumumba (Intakt, 2022) – with Clemens Kuratle Ydivide
  • Live in Leipzig (Spherical, 2024) – with Loz Speyer's Inner Space
  • The Default (Intakt, 2025) – with Clemens Kuratle Ydivide

References

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