Johnny Butler

There are two or more users named johnny Butler - 1) Johnny Butler (who did NOT write Early Morning, found below) is a Brooklyn-based multi-genre saxophonist and composer, born in Seattle, WA. Johnny performs nationally and internationally solo (with saxophone and laptop), with the band Scurvy, and several other groups. Johnny currently plays with The Skeletons Big Band, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Sonia's Party and the Everyone's Invited Band Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

There are two or more users named johnny Butler - 1) Johnny Butler (who did NOT write Early Morning, found below) is a Brooklyn-based multi-genre saxophonist and composer, born in Seattle, WA. Johnny performs nationally and internationally solo (with saxophone and laptop), with the band Scurvy, and several other groups. Johnny currently 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 Dak Dies and has made recent appearances with Joe Lally (of Fugazi), Scott Stein and The Ramblers, Margaret (Rhodes) Butler, and the Stumble Bums. Additionally, he donates his 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. 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, Randolph Coleman and Lewis Neilson and continued his studies with Lenny Tristano disciple Connie Cruthers, Vijay Iyer, and Ableton Live sponsored electro-acoustic violinist Todd Reynolds. 2) Johnny Butler is also a solo artist from Western Idaho, that writes composes and performs in the Boise area. He currently has an album (Arborvitae) and an EP (Visions), with another album on its way for the end of the summer. He's been playing guitar since the age of 12 and is mainly an acoustic artist. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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