Search - Artist/Band: Billy Butterfield

• Name: Billy Butterfield
• Birthday: 01/14/1917
• Birth Place: Middletown, OH
• Died: 03/18/1988
• Decades Active: 1930,1940,1950,1960,1970,1980
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Dixieland, Swing, Traditional Pop, Mainstream Jazz

Title	Release
A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening	04/21/2009
The Song Is You	01/22/2008
Duet	2006
What Is There to Say	03/22/2005
Soft Strut	11/16/2004
The Incomparable Butterfield Horn	2002
Pandora's Box: 1946-1947	10/17/2000
Issued Recordings 1944-1947	10/12/1999

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. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide