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Sam Butler

Sam Butler grew up in a musical family in Fairhope, Alabama. Since birth, he was exposed to all forms of music. Between having grandparents that are jazz musicians and a father who exposed him to both classic and contemporary jazz icons from a young age, it was natural for Sam began to develop a keen interest in jazz music. He began playing his father's old trumpet at age 11, and shortly after he began taking lessons with acclaimed trumpet educator Peter Wood. In high school, Sam was selected into Music For All's Jazz Band of America in both 2017 and 2018, and he won the 2017 Pensacola Jazz Competition. Throughout these years, Sam ran his own bands in the Gulf Coast area and played as a sideman in many others, including being featured as one of the soloists in the Mobile Big Band Society.

Time Takes Odd Turns

By Tom Johnson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Naught Won; Simple Song; 80’s Suite: Book One; 80’s Suite (Book One, One More Time, Lucky); En la Casa de los Perritos; Well You Better; Ballad for the A1 Band; Cats and Mouses; Bossa Monday Suite; Simply Stuff and Nonsense.

Across the Field

By Sam Butler

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tiger Rag; Anchors Aweigh; Indiana, Our Indiana; Rocky Top; Across the Field; Glory, Glory; Hot Time in The Old Town Tonight (feat. Wycliffe Gordon); Fight On; Hail Purdue; The Victors; Ramblin' Wreck; Victory March; On Wisconsin.

Visions Jazz Ensemble: Across the Field

by Jack Bowers
November 16, 2024

Here is a unique and intriguing concept: a baker's dozen collegiate anthems and fight songs, trimly recast in contemporary jazz settings by the seven-member Visions Jazz Ensemble, comprised of Indiana University alumni who stride Across the Field with an abundance of proficiency and perception. Although the hip arrangements by the ensemble's co-leaders, trumpeter ...

Folklore

By Sam Butler

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Suspension (Adrift, Glide); When the Darkness Reaches Morning; I. At Night, and Then Upon Waking; II. Ramifications; Storybook; Other Half; The Primrose Path; Feeling; Premonition, Acuity, Flourish.

Magos Herrera, Karl Berger, Asher Gamedze, Gretchen Parlato & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 17, 2023

A remembrance of Karl Berger, the stunning new album by Magos Herrera, and a whole bunch of projects you can find along the Johannesburg-New York-Chicago expressway. Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sam Butler “Storybook" Folklore (Shifting Paradigm) 0:16 Host talks 5:30 Karl Berger, Kirk Knuffke, ...

Shirley Scott, Dave McMurray & Melissa Pipe

by Joe Dimino
June 4, 2023

From a modern day multi-instrumental master from Canada, we begin the 805th Episode of Neon Jazz with Melissa Pipe and her sextet and music from Of What Remains. From there, we dig into some new releases from Ben Cassara, Dave McMurray, Shirley Scott, Florian Arbenz and up and comer Sam Butler. We round it all out ...