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Henry Butler News

Henry Butler CNN Interview:
Crime a blues refrain for New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Jazz musician Henry Butler calls himself an ambassador of New Orleans music. He loves the city where he was born and lived for decades. But like tens of thousands of others displaced by Hurricane Katrina, he has yet to return to live.
Read on HERE

Henry Butler Brings New Orleans to NPR
All Things Considered, June 2, 2008 - Pianist Henry Butler started playing music as a child in the New Orleans housing projects. Blind since birth, he went on to study at the Louisiana State School for the Blind, learning classical piano scores in Braille.
Read on HERE
Audio HERE.

The Bob Edwards Show
May 30, 2008
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Henry Butler plays some songs for Bob and discusses his life and career.
Listen on iTunes HERE


New Orleans gears up for Jazz Fest
By Larry Blumenfeld
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Eight months after the floods following Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005, there was at least one hard, good fact regarding a threatened music scene: the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival took place at its customary Mid-City Fair Grounds site......MORE HERE









Henry Butler Reviews

"...Henry Butler is arguably the greatest living proponent of the classic New Orleans piano tradition, playing an amalgam of boogie-woogie, jazz, blues and classical in the lineage of Professor Longhair, James Booker, Tuts Washington, Allen Toussaint and countless other emperors of the ivories..."

CMJ New Music Report Issue

"...It's not an exaggeration to say Butler is a piano genius who has yet to be discovered by the masses. His recordings demonstrate that he can do it all: he writes his own songs, does his own arrangements of classic tunes by Professor Longhair and others, and can play with as much passion as a soloist as he can with a band..."

Richard Skelly - All Music Guide

"...The playing is phenomenal, which shouldn't overshadow the emotional vocal performances,...highly recommended disc."

Al Campbell

"He is the pride of New Orleans and a visionistical down-home cat and a hellified piano plunker to boot...He plays the piano like Art Tatum, but when he starts singing he sounds like Paul Robeson."

Dr. John

"Henry Butler's name is not a household word, but over the last decade, he has established himself as the finest all-around pianist in New Orleans, a city known for its piano masters. Butler is equally at home in jazz, blues or R&B, and has toured with Verve Big Bands as well as being an acclaimed club performer in his own right..."

Jazz Times, Review of Henry's "For All Seasons"


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