Butterfield, Erskine
Butterfield, Erskine
Butterfield, Erskine, blues-jazz pianist, organist, singer, composer; b. Syracuse, N.Y., Feb. 9, 1913; d. N.Y., July 1961. Butterfield began playing piano at the age of nine, attended school in Newark, N.J., then became a full-time music student. He worked with Noble Sissle, briefly with The Savoy Sultans, then led his own band before joining the NBC studio staff in 1938. After service in the army during WWII, Butterfield led his own trio in Minneapolis, then resumed studio work in N.Y. He led different editions of his Blue Boys band.
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