Trumpeter/educator/bandleader Todd Butler is the veteran of the competition winners.
- BALTIMORE JAZZ COMPOSERS SHOWCASE
WINNERS
Todd Butler, an Eldersburg resident, recently won the Baltimore Jazz Alliance's
Composers Competition.
- Q&A: Eldersburg resident, long-time jazz
player,
wins composition award
DC Jazz Online has announced the winners in its first
annual recording competition. Winner of the first place award was the selection
"Nat's Groove" written by Todd Butler and performed by the Baltimore-based
Todd Butler Group.
- Todd Butler Group Wins DC Jazz Recording
Competition
Eldersburg resident Todd Butler, who has been
playing the trumpet since he was a teenager and whose popular jazz quintet has
drawn critical acclaim in the region, has written "Mojo," which will premiere on
Sept. 29 at Loyola University Maryland performed by the Baltimore Jazz
Alliance.
- Eldersburg trumpeter's 'Mojo' to be
featured
at
weekend concert
He leads his group by example, bringing out a lithe, brassy tone.
-Baltimore Magazine
For one
who is reasonably new on the scene, 30 year old trumpeter/ educator Todd Butler
has made a lot of inroads in 10 short years. Butler has used his talent, time
and learning to develop some great "chops" and a good realistic attitude, a
major survival technique.
- Todd Butler - Too Legit to Quit
The Todd Butler Group and its individual members were
honored in the fifteenth annual reader's poll conducted by Music Monthly
Magazine.
- Music Monthly Readers Vote TBG "Best In
Jazz"
...a high-energy hard
bop band with a full ensemble sound.
- Bill Falconer - Jazzreview.com.
...one of the best jazz
albums I've heard in a long while.
- MishMash indie music reviews
The Todd Butler Group is
a first-rate jazz ensemble.
- John Lewis - Baltimore Magazine.
...a highly polished
Jazz quintet.
- Tobias Hurwitz - Music Monthly
Magazine.
...these classics are
all
beautifully done.
- Theodore DeFosse - Splendid E-Zine.
... you just have to
hear
this record!
- Susie Mudd - Music Monthly
Magazine.
Here is another local
talent that deserves wider recognition....
- Eric Brewington - Jazzician.
Awesome classic jazz...
- UA Journal.