Stu Butterfield
Stu Butterfield (* around 1950) is a British jazz and improvisation musician ( drums ).
Butterfield began his music career in the late 1960s; after several years away from the music scene, he worked in London a. a. with Marcio Mattos , John Range Croft , Lol Coxhill and Veryan Weston , from 1999 also in the quartet of Henry Lowther and Jim Mullen , in the Great Wee band (with Lowther, Stan Sulzmann , Jim Mullen, Dave Green ) and finally Chris Biscoe , on whose albums Gone in the Air (2007), Profiles of Mingus (2009) and Live from Campus West (2011) he can be heard. In the field of jazz he was involved in nine recording sessions between 1996 and 2011. Butterfield is also co-founder of the Strayhorn Project , which has been interpreting lesser-known compositions by Billy Strayhorn since 2003 and which has released the album Multicolored Blue (with Phil Lee, Steve Kaldestad, Oli Hayhurst ).
Discographic notes
- Veryan Weston / Stu Butterfield / John Grieve / John Edwards : Unearthed (33 Records, 1998)
- Henry Lowther & Jim Mullen: Fungii Mama (GWB, 2002)
Web links
- Portrait at Trio Records
- Stu Butterfield's photographs at All About Jazz
- Stu Butterfield at Allmusic (English)
- Stu Butterfield at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butterfield, Stu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Butterfield, Stuart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1950 |