Henry Butler
Butler has been called “the pride of New Orleans" (Dr. John), “a piano genius" (All Music Guide) and “the greatest living proponent of the classic New Orleans piano tradition, playing an amalgam of boogie-woogie, jazz, blues and classical in the lineage of Professor Longhair, James Booker, Tuts Washington, Allen Toussaint and countless other emperors of the ivories" (CMJ New Music Report). Fortunately for music fans, he's been in the habit of recording his performances for decades. And while Butler lost his home and many of his possessions in the floods resulting from New Orleans' levee failures in Hurricane Katrina, his archive of tapes survived intact
