Frank Butler (musician)

Frank Butler ( born February 18, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri; † July 24, 1984 in Ventura, California ) was an American jazz drummer of modern jazz.

Frank Butler learned in Omaha drums, and then to play in the shows of the troops, and in the jazz bands from Kansas City. He was then employed by Dave Brubeck (1950), Edgar Hayes ( 1951-1953 ) Elmo Hope, Duke Ellington (1954 ), Perez Prado and Curtis Counce (1956). Since then, Frank Butler was mainly freelance initially worked in California and also worked for television. Throughout his career, Butler took on plates among others, with John Coltrane, Sonny Criss, Miles Davis, Kenny Drew, Red Garland, Helen Humes, Harold Land, Phineas Newborn, Sam Noto, Art Pepper and Ben Webster.

After a long break, the Butler took to cure his drug addiction, appeared in the late 1970s, his only two records under his own name at Xanadu Records.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Elmo Hope Trio And Quintet, 1953-57 ( Blue Note Records, 1957)
• Curtis Counce: Counceltation ( 1957) ( re-released as You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce ( OJC, 1991)), Sonority (1958), Carl 's Blues (1960 ); all published by Contemporary Records
• Sonny Criss Memorial Album ( Xanadu Records, 1965)
• Art Pepper: ... the way it what, 1956-60 (Contemporary Records, 1972)!
• Harold Land Harold in the Land of Jazz (1958), The Fox (1959 ); both published by Contemporary Records
• Helen Humes Swingin 'With Helen (Contemporary Records, 1961)
• Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven (Columbia Records, 1963)
• Phineas Newborn: The Newborn Touch (Contemporary Records, 1964)
• John Coltrane: Kulu Se Mama ( 1965), The Major Work of John Coltrane 1965 ( 1992); both published by Impulse! Records