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Bett Butler & Joël Dilley
Photo by
Melanie Rush Davis
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Booking:
Amanda Case
AIC Entertainment
321 High School Road, NE #210
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Tel: 206.781.3956
Fax:206.842.5337
e-mail
booking agent
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"Having
recently lived in San Francisco and Manhattan, I was stunned to hear
Butler's trio performing jazz with more sophistication than I'd heard on
either coast. She can be even more virtuosic live, improvising on jazz
standards with incredible timing or lushly intoning the Tin Pan Alley
songbook. If that's not enough, she's also a devastating scat singer and
a beautiful stage presence.
With husband Joël Dilley,
a lithe, powerful bassist whose inexhaustible solos are dynamic and
original; and the gnomic Buddha of Brass, trumpeter Cecil Carter, who
never met a note he couldn't caress into a lovely tone; Butler leads an
ensemble that always sounds new. Their jazz conversations are selfless
integrations in pursuit of a higher performance art. Each instrument
voices subtle shadings, sudden angles of entry, replenishing the
standards with passion, innovation, and wit. Their jazz conversations
are so hip, exciting, and entertaining, we may forget that behind these
first-rate performances of the standards there are three composers whose
own work must not go unheard, since their finest pieces will be
tomorrow's standards."
—from "Wings of a Butterfly," a review by
Roberto Bonazzi, official biographer of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me)
"I believe one of the most important things
we can do at our event is to provide innovative programming with music
and texts....and when the program we present turns out to be gorgeous
music superbly performed, as it did Saturday night......well, it was
very much a "died and gone to heaven" moment for me and I think for most
folks present. I've been blessed in my life to hear some remarkable
music performances...and I
sincerely believe that the three of you have created something
exceptionally fine." —Jack Brannon, Director, 6th Annual Poetry at Round Top Festival
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