[78-L] Margaret Whiting RIP

[Jeff Sultanof]

Butterfield is yet another musician who was a big drinker and could have had
a much bigger career. My former boss at Warner Bros. played in and arranged
for his band, and told me that he was frequently loaded by the last set on a
gig.

He had an entire book written for him by Gil Evans; several of these
arrangements were recorded for Westminster and the two 10" LPs are now hard
to find. Dan Morgenstern told me that he once asked Butterfield if he still
had the Evans book. He sheepishly told Dan no. What a tragedy.

Jeff Sultanof

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Mark Bardenwerper <citrogsa at charter.net>wrote:

> On 1/13/2011 3:59, Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> >
> > I have "Moonlight in Vermont" by her with Billy Butterfields's
> orchestra.I also
> > have "My Ideal".Both were black label Capitols.They were nice
> records.It's too
> > bad Butterfield didn't make it as a bandleader.
> >
> http://www.landing.com/profiles/matteson.htm
>
> I certainly would not call him a failure. He came into the big band era
> a bit late and his career was interrupted by service in the war. But by
> any measure he had a wonderful career as a musician.
>
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