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If you're familiar with the name Patrick Butler then you're either Patrick Butler or someone who spent too much time reading the fine print on albums by The Fatback Band, with whom Butler spent several years playing guitar, touring and recording albums like "Brite Lites/Big City" and "XII". But turns out, away from da funk, that Butler was really a jazz man.
Turns out he spent years studying with Harry Leahey, the 'Buddha of the Guitar' and after graduating from high school, he spent a period of time playing and studying with James Spaulding. But then he made his move into the The Fatback Band. After that Butler moved to Los Angeles, recording with Stephen Perkins' acid jazz jam band, Banyan and also appeared on indie bass guru Mike Watt's "Ball Hog or Tug Boat" album. He also fronts the Los Angeles Celtic funk band, Superkeltic.
But now it's time for his first solo release, and it's a mixture of smooth and acid jazz that seems to take his solo fancy. But, unusually, he's also dropping a lot of dance and trip hop beats into the mix, producing something that is both recognisable and different, no mean feat! In conjunction with co-producer and fellow beatmaster (and trumpeter) Dave Williams he has come up with an album of original material that manages to spring a new surprise every time you play it.
It's a rich and rewarding release, full of music you'll ant to hear over and over again. Key tracks - 'Fiaoloa', 'Descender' and 'Ezflo'. Highly recommended.
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Discography
Patrick Butler - Jazz Guitar
2007 - Mesmerizer
2008 Release - Coming Soon!
Press comments about Mesmerizer --
“Fantastic album.”
~ Alex Pijnen, BRTO Radio, Holland
"It's a rich and rewarding release, full of music you'll want to hear over and over again. Highly recommended."
~ Stuart Hamilton, Zeitgeist, U.K.
"Nice jazz lines over contemporary rhythms. Interesting textures, played with energy."
~ Richard Good, Radio One 91FM, New Zealand
“No collection is complete without this essential."
~ Gi Dussault, Upper Room with Joe Kelley
Radio/Streaming Airplay:
Upper Room Radio Show WVOF 88.5 FM, Fairfield, CT; Animajazz (Italy); Triple H-FM (Australia); Triple U-FM (New South Wales); 94.1 FM RADIO 2 (Macedonia); Jazz Radio FM (Poland); Soundwave FM (New Zealand); Sunny Breeze (Belarus); BRTO Radio (Netherlands); Radio One FM "Jazz Junction" (New Zealand)
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Patrick Butler is an accomplished guitar player, whose abilities span many musical styles. He studied jazz guitar with jazz legends, Harry Leahey and James Spaulding.
Butler recorded and toured with funk band The Fatback Band, and appears on Fatback’s single, King Tim III, considered to be the first rap song recorded. During the Fatback years, he also studied with the Trinidadian jazz guitar player, Roland Prince, who was then living in Brooklyn.
Feeling the need for more creativity after touring with Fatback, Butler took two years “off” for a period of intensive composition. During this period, he composed a book called “Pentatonic Flights,” which used the pentatonic scale as the basis of the harmonic structure instead of the diatonic scale.
Moving to Los Angeles and forming Unstoppable, a power funk rock trio with Steven Hoshko on bass and Andre Allen on drums, Butler’s band was ubiquitous in Hollywood. Butler recorded with Mike Watt, indie rock bass player phenom, appearing on Watt’s Ball Hog or Tugboat. He also appears on Banyan’s CD Anytime at All, Stephen Perkins’ acid jazz project.
Butler’s current projects include fronting the Celtic rock trio, Superkeltic, and jamming “space guitar” with Dave Williams’ nu-jazz band, The Magic Bullet Theory. He is an annual attendee at Uli Jon Roth's Sky Academy.
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