Billy Butterfield & The Essex Five
Billy Butterfield & The Essex Five
Top Songs
| 1 | Willow Weep for Me [Live at Amherst] | ||
| 2 | 'Deed I Do [Live at Princeton] | ||
| 3 | Dancing on the Ceiling [Live at Rutgers] | ||
| 4 | West End Blues [Live at N.Y.U.] | ||
| 5 | Dancing on the Ceiling [Live at Rutgers] |
Albums
Jan 1955 • 4 songs
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Biography
A versatile pre-bop trumpeter with a beautiful tone, Billy Butterfield could play pretty ballads and heated Dixieland with equal skill. After early experience in the mid-'30s with the bands of Austin Wylie and Andy Anderson, Butterfield became famous while playing with Bob Crosby's Orchestra (1937-1940), taking the main solo on the original version of "What's New," and making numerous records with both the big band and the Bobcats. In 1940, he was with Artie Shaw, participating in the famed Gramercy Five sessions and taking a classic solo on Shaw's rendition of "Star Dust"; in...