Henry Butler

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Mama Roux 00:00 Tools
Au Bord de l'eau 00:00 Tools
Jump to the Music 00:00 Tools
Some Iko 00:00 Tools
Henry's Boogie 00:00 Tools
Dr. James 00:00 Tools
The Game Band Strut 00:00 Tools
Orleans Inspiration 00:00 Tools
The Game Has Just Begun 00:00 Tools
Homeland 00:00 Tools
Basin St. Blues 00:00 Tools
Teatherball 00:00 Tools
Hey Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Tee-Nah-Nah 00:00 Tools
I Stand Accused 00:00 Tools
Basin Street Blues 00:00 Tools
The Way We Loved 00:00 Tools
Let 'Em Roll 00:00 Tools
Mother-In-Law 00:00 Tools
Dock of the Bay 00:00 Tools
A Winter's Blues 00:00 Tools
You Can't Beat My Love 00:00 Tools
Tipitina 00:00 Tools
Blue Moments 00:00 Tools
You Are My Sunshine 00:00 Tools
Casino 00:00 Tools
Ode to Fess 00:00 Tools
Somethin' You Got 00:00 Tools
OS7.0 00:00 Tools
I've Got My Eyes on You 00:00 Tools
Will it Go Round in Circles 00:00 Tools
Butler's Boogie 00:00 Tools
C.C. Rider 00:00 Tools
River Is Waiting 00:00 Tools
Bourbon Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Old Man River 00:00 Tools
This Is Where I Live 00:00 Tools
North American Idiosyncrasies 00:00 Tools
Fivin' Around 00:00 Tools
Relaxing Blues 00:00 Tools
Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand 00:00 Tools
The Marriage Song 00:00 Tools
I Really Love You 00:00 Tools
How Insensitive 00:00 Tools
Somewhere 00:00 Tools
Death Has No Mercy 00:00 Tools
Tee Na Na 00:00 Tools
Riders On The Storm 00:00 Tools
Mac Daddy Henry 00:00 Tools
Fall Blues 00:00 Tools
High Heeled Sneakers 00:00 Tools
Tie Me Down 00:00 Tools
Liberty Street Blues 00:00 Tools
King Cotton 00:00 Tools
When You Listen With Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
L.A. Samba 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Great Balls Of Fire 00:00 Tools
The Breaks 00:00 Tools
Regeneration 00:00 Tools
Booker Time 00:00 Tools
Music Came 00:00 Tools
Blues For All Seasons 00:00 Tools
The Eastern Connection 00:00 Tools
Souvenir D'un Amour 00:00 Tools
Without A Song 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps 00:00 Tools
Love In Autumn 00:00 Tools
Q&A With Henry Butler 00:00 Tools
Blues After Midnight 00:00 Tools
Something You Got 00:00 Tools
Old Folks 00:00 Tools
Dixie Walker 00:00 Tools
Improvisation On An Afghanistan Theme 00:00 Tools
Spring Jam 00:00 Tools
I Like It Like That 00:00 Tools
Mardi Gras In New Orleans 00:00 Tools
Tee-Nah-Nah-(L) 00:00 Tools
The Butler's Blues 00:00 Tools
My Coloring Book 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down Slow 00:00 Tools
Swing It! 00:00 Tools
Tipitina's 00:00 Tools
Come Back Jack 00:00 Tools
I Want Jesus To Walk With Me 00:00 Tools
Good Night Song 00:00 Tools
Down By The Riverside 00:00 Tools
Beautiful, She Is 00:00 Tools
Dr. Diddley 00:00 Tools
Tritonal Commission 00:00 Tools
Samba C 00:00 Tools
Night Life Shuffle 00:00 Tools
A Thing Of Beauty 00:00 Tools
Reflections 00:00 Tools
Sonata in F major 00:00 Tools
Expressions Of Quietude 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Blues 00:00 Tools
Fauré: Au Bord de l'Eau 00:00 Tools
Joanna 00:00 Tools
Swinging At The Palace 00:00 Tools
Nice Reading 00:00 Tools
Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand 00:00 Tools
Jamaica Farewell 00:00 Tools
Tee-Nah-Nah [Live] 00:00 Tools
The Pastoral Connection 00:00 Tools
Hey Now, Baby 00:00 Tools
Soft Platonicism 00:00 Tools
OS7-0 00:00 Tools
The Lucky Old Sun 00:00 Tools
I Like It Liike That 00:00 Tools
Mama Roux (Live) 00:00 Tools
Village 00:00 Tools
L A Samba 00:00 Tools
The Village 00:00 Tools
Sonata in G Major 00:00 Tools
The Entertainer 00:00 Tools
Division D Major 00:00 Tools
L'esprit De James 00:00 Tools
Sonata in G Minor 00:00 Tools
link No.4 00:00 Tools
Au Bord de l'Eau (Gabriel Fauré) 00:00 Tools
Hey Now, Baby - Live 00:00 Tools
Sugar Daddy 00:00 Tools
Entertainer 00:00 Tools
Shake What Your Mama Gave You 00:00 Tools
Division G Major 00:00 Tools
Tee-Nah-Nah (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hey Now, Baby (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Like It Like That - Henry Butler 00:00 Tools
If You Let a Man Kick You Once 00:00 Tools
Link #4 00:00 Tools
Buddy Bolden's Blues 00:00 Tools
Mulberry Row 00:00 Tools
Song of the Pipelayer 00:00 Tools
That lucky old sun 00:00 Tools
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Henry Butler (New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., September 21, 1949 – July 2, 2018) was an American jazz and blues pianist. He was known for his technique and his ability to play in many styles of music. In 1987, New York Times music critic Jon Pareles wrote that Butler "revels in fluency and facility, splashing chords all over the keyboard and streaking through solos with machine-gun articulation. In 1998, Chicago Tribune arts critic Howard Reich described Butler as "an enormous intellect matched by unusual physical strength." Referred to by Dr. John as "the pride of New Orleans," Butler was his generation's representative in the Crescent City's lineage of piano players such as Professor Longhair, James Booker, Tuts Washington, and Jelly Roll Morton. Butler recorded for several record labels, including Impulse, Windham Hill, and Basin Street Records. Butler was blinded by glaucoma in infancy. His musical training began at the Louisiana State School for the Blind, where he learned to play valve trombone, baritone horn and drums before focusing his talents on singing and piano. Butler was mentored at Southern University, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by clarinetist and educator Alvin Batiste. Butler later earned a master's degree in music at Michigan State University in 1974, and received the MSU Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated Butler's home in the Gentilly section of New Orleans. His 1925 vintage Mason & Hamlin piano was wrecked by flood waters that rose to nearly eight feet inside his house. In the wake of Katrina's damage, Butler left New Orleans and briefly relocated to Colorado, living first in Boulder and then Denver. He later spoke of that Colorado period as "a trying exile." In 2009, Butler relocated again to New York City. Butler pursued photography as a hobby since 1984, as an outgrowth of attending art exhibits in Los Angeles and asking friends to describe featured works. His methods and photos were featured in an HBO2 documentary, Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers, that aired in 2010. Butler's photographs were also shown in galleries in New Orleans. Butler died of end-stage cancer in New York City on July 2, 2018 at the age of 68. Discography Fivin' Around (1986) The Village (1988) Orleans Inspiration (1990) Blues & More (1992) For All Seasons (1996) Blues After Sunset (1998) The Game Has Just Begun (2002) Homeland (2004) PiaNOLA Live (2008) With James Carter In Carterian Fashion (Atlantic, 1998) With Corey Harris Vu-Du Menz (Alligator Records, 2000) With Steven Bernstein Viper's Drag (2014), Impulse Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.