Johnny Butler (2)

Johnny Butler is a Brooklyn-based multi-genre saxophonist and composer, born in Seattle, WA. Johnny performs nationally and internationally solo (with saxophone and laptop), with the band Scurvy, and several other groups. Johnny currently plays or has played with The Skeletons Big Band, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, Sonia's Party and the Everyone's Invited Band, Ryan Snow's Pull, Indra Raj, Afuche, and Dak Dies and has made recent appearances with Joe Lally (of Fugazi), Scott Stein and The Ramblers, Margaret (Rhodes) Butler, and the Stumble Bums. Additionally, he donates his time and music to Musicians On Call, a not-for-profit organization that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in health care facilities. Butler graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a BM in Jazz Studies and Performance with an emphasis in classical composition, studying with Gary Bartz, Robin Eubanks, Billy Hart, Randolph Coleman and Lewis Neilson and continued his studies with Lenny Tristano disciple Connie Cruthers, Vijay Iyer, and Ableton Live sponsored electro-acoustic violinist Todd Reynolds.