Henry Butler News

ACL Fest Preview: Suckers and Henry Butler - Brainy Bicoastal Indie-Pop vs. Earthy New Orleans Gospel R&B Tuesday, Sep.

What a relief to be back: The Monterey Jazz Festival, its 52nd annual edition, got started Friday night and continues through the weekend.

Rounder Records is pleased to announce that Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas along with Jazz/R&B pianist, Henry Butler will join Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Minnie Driver , Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bela Fleck and Irma Thomas for its 40th Anniversary celebration on October 12 at The Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, TN.

This weekend , trumpeter and composer Mark Rapp and his NY-based band will come back for a second year in a row bringing his original sounds of contemporary/modern Jazz to Florence, Alabama at the 28th annual WC Handy Festival.

Henry Butler pounds out the blues at Snug, John Boutte and The Original 007 rock d.b.a., the N.O. Indie Rock Collective feature three bands at One Eyed Jacks and Jenny Lewis sheds her Rilo Kiley persona for a solo show at the House of Blues.

Looking for the best air-conditioning to beat the heat this week? Well, aren't we all? In the clubs Bob French plays Irvin's Playhouse, Henry Butler pounds out the blues at Snug, John Boutte and The Original 007 rock d.b.a., the N.O. Indie Rock Collective feature three bands at One Eyed Jacks and Jenny Lewis sheds her Rilo Kiley persona for a solo ...

In the seven decades they have been around, of course, a lot has happened. The line-up l has changed, different musical styles have come and gone, 78 RPMs have given way to LPs which have given way to eight-tracks, to cassettes and now CDs.

New Orleans is not only the cradle of jazz. It's also the birthplace of great jazz piano, dating back to the early 1900s, when Jelly Roll Morton tickled the ivories.

Allen Toussaint keeps the New Orleans jazz-piano tradition alive in a concert from the Kennedy Center.

BRETT DUKE / THE TIMES-PICYAUNE Vasti Jackson plays the guitar as Henry Butler performs on the Congo Square "My Louisiana" Stage during the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Friday, April 24, 2009 at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans.

New Orleans-- The 40th anniversary Jazz and Heritage Festival is hitting New Orleans Fairgrounds Racetrack April 24th through April 29th and April 30th through May 3rd 2009.

Marica Ball plays at the Howlin' Wolf Northshore in Mandeville on Sunday, April 26.

Soon, 40-year Jazz Fest veteran Henry Butler would take the stage, followed later by a sure-to-be impressive sent from Wynton Marsalis and the formidable Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

A Great Night in Harlem May 14, 2009 8pm Apollo Theater 253 West 125th Street Hosted by Danny Glover, Chevy Chase and Michael Imperioli Performances include: Lou Reed a Dr.

While the Congo Square "My Lousiana" Stage has had solid entertainment running all day long, the crowd size has remained relatively small.

It's opening day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and trumpeter-composer Wynton Marsalis is set to take the stage.

Tomorrow, Jazz Fest starts. The weather will be grand, and I have my Brass Pass in hand.

"It's been a hell of a ride," says Quint Davis of producing - well actually living - the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for the last 40 years.