Butch Warren
Edward Randolph " Butch" Warren ( born August 9, 1939 in Washington, DC; † October 5, 2013 in Silver Spring, Maryland ) was an American jazz musician (bass, composition). Because of its pure tone and excellent timing, he was a sought-after session musician back in the 1960s.
Life and work
Warren gained his first experience in his father's band Edward Warren, he played piano and organ, and grew up in a musical household, her mother sang with many musician friends. He had his first exposure to the band of saxophonist Rick Henderson. He studied music in South Carolina. In 1956 he played with Gene Ammons and with Stuff Smith. He moved to New York City where he joined Kenny Dorham at (1959). In 1961 he was involved in the album Free Form with Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Billy Higgins and 1963 Page One with Joe Henderson, both on Blue Note. Further recordings with Kenny Dorham exist, Thelonious Monk and Dexter Gordon Go. Monk did not think he played with bow. At the time he took drugs and smoked a lot. He played as a " Blue Note " House bassist (since it was on time ) on plates by Stanley Turrentine, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley and many others with. He played as a bassist in the house band of the TV show "Today with Inga ". With the hospital to which he always came back, he made bad experiences ( electric shocks ) and lived in the meantime getting back on the road. His marriage failed, it there's a daughter. 2010 arose as a result of a tour of France with Pierrick Monuau a radio concert was the first album under his own name: " French5tet ". In the 1960s, Warren was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia. He returned to Washington, where he played in local TV shows, and R & B bands. At the beginning of the 1970s was followed by a one year stay in a psychiatric hospital. From the mid- 1970s he played again and was also on recordings by Howard McGhee, Donald Byrd and Joe Henderson involved. Until the 1980s, he earned his living with occasional appearances in Washington jazz clubs. After he had sold his medication without authorization, he lived at times on the road and was finally admitted to the psychiatric ward of a hospital in Sykesville.
Since 2007, his longtime friend and fellow musician Peter Edelman again organized performances by Warren. Since then, he was again active as a musician. 2013 at his lung cancer was diagnosed in the final stage.