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Johnny Butler is a tenor, bari, alto, and soprano saxophonist, a multi-genre composer, improvisor, and teacher. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, and has been a member of the New York music community since graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2006 with a degree in Jazz Studies and Performance with an emphasis in classical composition, studying saxophone with Gary Bartz and classical composition with Randolph Coleman. Johnny currently performs within a wide range of musical genres including jazz, classical, indie-rock, avant-rock, soul, R&B, fusion, and free improvisation and is particularly interested in electro-acoustic saxophone performance. Current projects include: Solo saxophone and laptop performances, Johnny's multi-faceted solo project Scurvy, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Ryan Snow's Pull, indie singer-songwriter Indra Raj, minimalist progressive Cuban-influenced rock group Afuche. Recent performances/collaborations with: the Skeletons, the Michael Case Quartet, singer-songwriter Jeff Grant, Joe Solomon, MAF!, and the Stumble Bums, In addition, Johnny is a frequent collaborator in the Raw and the Cooked, a monthly forum/performance for improvised music, dance, and multi-media, and 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.
If I don't have a gig that night I am so at egans. I'm stoked to grab the new cd. If you were interested in a remix I'd love to do one. Hope all is well homes.
AWESOME PARTY!!!! great times man thanks for putting it all together. You guys played really well. Happy birthday and let me know when you get some of those tunes recorded I"d love to have my very own JB cd. see you again soon.
Yo, Johnny. What it is homie? Hope all is well. It was fun playing with you here in Seattle; hope we can do it again, there in NYC. Holla back at a cat! Peace.
