Lontano - Tin Pan Ballet: Music of Martin Butler (CD)

Release Date: 01/01/05

Rhythm and dance

Martin Butler's music is really clever and worth hearing American Record Guide The music of Martin Butler is original. Having studied in the Royal Northern College of Music UK, Princeton University on a Fulbright and later a Mendelssohn Scholarship enabling him to study with Luciano Berio, Butler has acquired a very approachable style combining American rhythm and blues, Tin Pan Alley, Jazz, and rhythm in its many forms. Music to dance by! Ruth Crouch is the solo violin in Bluegrass Variations and Richard Benjafield is solo marinba in Going with the Grain. Lontano ensemble is conducted by Odaline de la Martinez