Once you’ve heard what bluesman Henry Butler’s hands can create on those ivories, there’s no going back. Those hands boogie that keyboard like no one else’s. Throw in a classically trained voice ...

New Orleans musician Henry Butler has been diagnosed with stage IV cancer, according to friends, and is hoping to seek treatment in Germany. Despite the health concerns, the jazz and blues pianist is ...

When the New Orleans pianist Henry Butler reached New York in 2009, the strapping dude with sunglasses and a felt hat looked way younger than 61. Riding a wave of concerts and recordings, Butler, in ...

Jazz in the ’90s does not lack for gifted pianists, but New Orleans virtuoso Henry Butler stands apart from most of them. Yet it’s not just his extraordinary technique, oft-gargantuan sound and ...

Henry Butler performs on the Gentilly Stage at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 2, 2013. The pianist returns to the Fair Grounds during the festival's second weekend in 2017. (Photo by David Grunfeld, ...

One of the quintessential exponents of the city's rich, deeply layered and distinctive piano sound, Butler had battled advance-stage cancer since... Henry Butler, a pianist, singer and cornerstone of ...

Get out your Crayolas and sketchpads, as we fill in the spectrum of musical colors. Red-hot jazz, cool blues, what we see when we hear music. All those feelings will come to light as we dig back into ...

Pianist Henry Butler started playing music as a child in the New Orleans housing projects. Blind since birth, he went on to study at the Louisiana State School for the Blind, learning classical piano ...

Ten years ago this week, the colossal New Orleans singer-pianist Henry Butler saw his life very nearly wrecked by Hurricane Katrina and its disastrous aftermath. Butler’s New Orleans house was deluged ...

Henry Butler's last recording was a bit of an eclectic affair. The Game has Just Begun, Butler's debut on New Orleans? Basin Street Records, contained a gumbo of Southern music with a cover of "Riders ...

NEW YORK — Henry Butler, a pianist who carried the flamboyant, two-fisted traditions of New Orleans to the brink of the avant-garde, died Monday in a hospice facility in the Bronx. He was 69. His ...

Henry Butler, a pianist, singer and cornerstone of the New Orleans sound, died of cancer Monday morning in the Bronx, New York. His death was confirmed by his agent, Maurice Montoya. Butler was 69 ...