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Isrea Butler

Before joining UNLV, Isrea Butler was head of the Department of Music at Valdosta State University. Prior to his appointment at Valdosta State, he was music department chair at North Carolina Central University. He has taught and held a range of other leadership and teaching positions in universities throughout the country. Butler also enjoys a distinguished career as a jazz trombonist and conductor. He earned his bachelor of music and master of music at the Eastman School of Music and his doctor of music degree at Rutgers University. 

Gretchen Parlato, Kevin Sun, and Eberhard Weber

by Jerome Wilson
October 7, 2026

This episode features new music from Gretchen Parlato and Kevin Sun as well as older work by Eberhard Weber and Joel Ross.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Isrea Butler “I.Q. Shuffle" from Congo Lament (Vegas) ...

Hiromi, Ella Fitzgerald, Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist, Deborah Silver, Johnny O'Neal & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 5, 2025

This broadcast celebrates the close of Jazz Appreciation Month with new releases from Deborah Silver, Hiromi, Ella Fitzgerald, Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist and Johnny O'Neal, with birthday shoutouts to Kay Swift, Ella Fitzgerald, Ma Rainey, Ariane Racicot, Blossom Dearie and Kendra Shank, among others. Happy listening and please support the ...

University of Nevada-Las Vegas: Let The Good Times Roll

by Jack Bowers
April 3, 2025

If energy and enthusiasm were enough to earn a prize, the University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1 would surely have one in hand to salute its newest album, Let the Good Times Roll, a textbook lesson in buoyant and heavy-duty big-band jazz. While co-directors Dave Loeb and Nathan Tanouye enlist no fewer than seven ...

Congo Lament

By Isrea Butler

Label: Vegas Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Congo Lament; I.Q. Shuffle; Easy Living; B.G.'s Groove; Pennies from Heaven; Que's Pills; See See Rider.

Richard J Salvucci's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Richard J Salvucci
December 18, 2024

Bandleader Glenn Miller would introduce a part of his 1930s radio broadcast with the phrase “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." If you review enough classic vinyl rereleases, you get plenty of something old. The new here is obvious and a joy to hear. Only problem is that it will be 2025 before making ...

Isrea Butler: Congo Lament

by Jack Bowers
October 13, 2024

After decades gigging as a sideman with some of the USA's most renowned big bands, trombonist Isrea Butler has finally recorded his debut album, Congo Lament, inviting tenor saxophonist and celebrated Count Basie Orchestra soloist Doug Lawrence to share the front line in his quintet. All but one of the album's seven numbers ...

Isrea Butler: Congo Lament

by Richard J Salvucci
September 22, 2024

Well, this is the kind of recording that will start a war over who hears whom and what, all that jazz police kind of thing. Worry not. Whether you think this is a bop recording, rooted in swing, with more than a little of Al Grey's plunger mute on the trombone, or something entirely different, the ...

Warren Smith, Mamiko Watanabe, and Art Pepper

by Jerome Wilson
September 18, 2024

This program features orchestral work from Warren Smith, Hyeseon Hong, and Miho Hazama and small group music from Art Pepper, Mamiko Watanabe, and Dave Douglas. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Stephen Philip Harvey Octet ...

New Releases Plus A Celebration of Vocalists Margaret Whiting, Annie Ross & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 5, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Willow Smith, Eyal Vilner, Isrea Butler and Markus Howell with birthday shoutouts to Margaret Whiting (100!), Annie Ross, Joanne Brackeen, Nnenna Freelon, Shamie Royston, Janis Siegel, Ada Rovatti and Fay Victor, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their ...