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Billy Butterfield

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Wikimp3 information about the music of Billy Butterfield. On our website we have 32 albums and 37 collections of artist Billy Butterfield. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that Billy Butterfield represents Jazz genres.

Biography

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A versatile pre-bop trumpeter with a beautiful tone, Billy Butterfield could play pretty ballads and heated Dixieland with equal skill. After early experience in the mid-'30s with the bands of Austin Wylie and Andy Anderson, Butterfield became famous while playing with Bob Crosby's Orchestra (1937-1940), taking the main solo on the original version of "What's New," and making numerous records with both the big band and the Bobcats. In 1940, he was with Artie Shaw, participating in the famed Gramercy Five sessions and taking a classic solo on Shaw's rendition of "Star Dust"; in addition, Butterfield can be seen and heard playing "Concerto for Clarinet" with Shaw in the film Second Chorus. After stints with Benny Goodman (1941) and Les Brown, Butterfield spent time in the military, and then led a lyrical (but commercially unsuccessful) big band (1945-1947). He worked mostly in the studios during the 1950s and '60s, occasionally emerging for Dixieland dates with Eddie Condon, and was a key member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band (1968-1972). In later years, he continued popping up in Dixieland settings both for records and concerts.

Title: Easy Now

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: Embraceable You

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: Rooftop Storys

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: The Uncollected

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: Billy Plays Bix

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: Pussy Cat

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: The Real Thing

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: Sheet Music

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: Gaudy Colours

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: Confectioner's

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Title: Soft Strut

Artist: Billy Butterfield

Genre: Jazz

Collections

Title: Hot Trumpets

Genre: Jazz

Title: Symphony of Love

Genre: Pop

Title: Bye Bye Love

Genre: Pop

Title: A Love Is Born

Genre: Pop

Featuring albums

Title: April Showers

Artist: Margaret Whiting

Genre: Pop

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