[78-L] Margaret Whiting RIP

[Taylor Bowie]

I recall seeing Butterfield playing with the World's Greatest Jazz Band here 
in Seattle about 1978 and he sounded great,  but even his stage presence 
seemed sort of melancholy.

My big thrill came after the show when I got to meet and chat with Bud 
Freeman,  the first jazz musician I can recall "tuning into,"   via my dad's 
copy of Bud's Bluebird of "I Found a New Baby" when I was about four years 
old!    It's still one of my fave records,  as is the Butterfield-Whiting 
version of Moonlight in Vermont.


Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Sultanof" <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Margaret Whiting RIP


> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. #:?)
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