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Johnny Butler

Johnny Butler is a multi-genre musician, composer, and teacher. He's a member of the Brooklyn, NY music community and grew up in Seattle, WA. Butler performs nationally and internationally solo (with my saxophone and laptop), with my band Scurvy, and with numerous other groups. Currently, he plays with The Skeletons Big Band, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Sonia's Party and the Everyone's Invited Band, Ryan Snow's Pull, Indra Raj, Afuche, and Astoria based fusion group Dak Dies. I've also made recent appearances with Joe Lally of Fugazi, Scott Stein of The Ramblers, Margaret (Rhodes) Butler, and the Stumble Bums. In addition, Butler donate my time and music to Musicians On Call, a not-for-profit organization that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in health care facilities. Johnny Butler graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a BM in Jazz Studies and Performance with an emphasis in classical composition, studying with Gary Bartz, Robin Eubanks, Billy Hart, and classical composers Randolph Coleman and Lewis Neilson and have continued my studies with Lenny Tristano disciple Connie Cruthers, Vijay Iyer, and Ableton Live sponsored electro-acoustic violinist Todd Reynolds.

Solo

By Johnny Butler

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Catherdral; Katrina, Glitch, Eulogy.

Fracture

By Johnny Butler

Label: Hi4Head
Released: 2010
Track listing: Meditation; Chime In; Jenny Found A Hole; Snowcaine; Halfbrain; Side A Is Dead; Inversion; Irradiance; One.Two.Three; QNG.

Scurvy: Fracture

by Nick Millevoi
November 5, 2010

It is no news that prog rock is thriving. There is a healthy scene of underground bands that embrace heavy riffing and odd-meters, and run them through a variety of experiments. New York saxophonist Johnny Butler has gotten in on it too, and presents his unique version with Fracture, by his quintet, Scurvy. With ...

Johnny Butler: Solo

by Mark F. Turner
February 23, 2010

On any street corner or venue it's possible to hear a musician playing solo saxophone, its reed-song beckoning down thoroughfares to anyone that will listen. But by putting a spin on things, it's quite another matter to hear and see that horn wired into a laptop computer, as it provides multiphonic voices and looped patterns, fed ...