WNYC's Fishko Files: An Hour with Henry Butler
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Length: 00:59:00
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'Jazz has been in the recycling business for a long time. I'm not the recycling kind. I'm a continuous explorer.' Henry Butler
For 'An Hour with Henry Butler,' Sara Fishko traveled to Butler's home in New Orleans to tape Butler in conversation and at the piano. In the hour, Butler talks frankly about his blindness, his musical influences, his experiences as an African-American student in a southern school in the mid-60's and his view of mainstream jazz. As he and Fishko chat, he often turns to the piano to illustrate a scale, a favorite piece, and even a practice exercise. When they discuss breakthroughs in his improvising skill, he rips through a version of one of his standards, 'The Breaks,' with a bit of newly-minted improvisation. This is Butler in great form.
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'Jazz has been in the recycling business for a long time. I'm not the recycling kind. I'm a continuous explorer.' Henry Butler For 'An Hour with Henry Butler,' Sara Fishko traveled to Butler's home in New Orleans to tape Butler in conversation and at the piano. In the hour, Butler talks frankly about his blindness, his musical influences, his experiences as an African-American student in a southern school in the mid-60's and his view of mainstream jazz. As he and Fishko chat, he often turns to the piano to illustrate a scale, a favorite piece, and even a practice exercise. When they discuss breakthroughs in his improvising skill, he rips through a version of one of his standards, 'The Breaks,' with a bit of newly-minted improvisation. This is Butler in great form.
Timing and Cues
Total Time: 59:00
Segment A - 17:59
oc: "...and learns from two New Orleans legends. Back in a minute.."
Break 1 - :59, with music
Segment B - 20:11
oc: "...this is Sara Fishko, back in a minute..."
Break 2, :59, with music
Segment C - 18:49
oc: "...made possible by a grant from the Kaplen Foundation."
Musical Works
1. Henry Butler, Blues & More, Volume I Wyndham Hill 10138-2
2. Henry Butler, Blues For All Seasons Atlantic 82856
3. Henry Butler, Homeland Basin Street BSR 0802-2
4. Tangle Eye, Alan Lomax's Southern Journey Remixed Zoe 01143-1024-2
5. Henry Butler, The Village MCA impulse mcad-8023
6. Henry Butler, Fivin' Around MCA impulse mcad-5707
7. James Booker, Piano Wizard: Live! Rounder CD 2027
8. James Booker, Junco Partner Hannibal HNCD 1359
9. The Professor Longhair Anthology Rhino R2 71502
10. Louisiana Spice (Anthology) Rounder AN 18/19
11. Alvin Batiste, Bayou Magic India Navigation 1069CD
12. Atlantic Blues: Piano (Anthology) Atlantic 81694
(and private recordings of Butler's live performances in Maine and Massachusetts)
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Review of An Hour with Henry Butler
When it comes to music pedigree, veteran host, producer, programmer Sara Fishko is your top of the line. This hour that she spends pianoside with New Orleans blues artist Henry Butler is a pleasure - equally from the interview point of view as well as the playing, the wonderful music punctuating the conversation just as it should. A thorough hour for those of us that like our jazz full out and in vivid detail.