| 1. Tracks |
| 2. 01.Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow |
| 3. 02.Girl Talk |
| 4. 03.Dancing on the Ceiling |
| 5. 04.Hold It! |
| 6. 05.Evening Dreams |
| 7. 06.The Butler Did It |
| 8. 07.Sweet Georgia Brown |
| 9. Personnel |
| 10. guitar, bass guitar |
| 11. Houston Person - tenor saxophone |
| 12. Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone, flute |
| 13. Ernie Hayes , Sonny Phillips - organ, electric piano |
| 14. Everett Barksdale, Billy Suyker - guitar |
| 15. Jimmy Lewis , Chuck Rainey - electric bass |
| 16. Jimmy Johnson - drums |
| 17. is well known to guitarists only, as the co-author of the early R&B funked-up standard "Honky Tonk," with organist Bill Doggett. Yesterday,Today, and Tomorrow, eleased in 1970 -- offers a wide view of the man and his music. With a saxophonist like Houston Person, he could play the most elegant swing -- as in their read of the Rodgers & Hart classic "Dancing on the Ceiling" .The wildest tune is Neil Hefti and Booby Troup's "Girl Talk." Before this I could never have imagined hearing this tune as an instrumental, but it works like grease on a bicycle chain with Butler punching up the melody and bending his strings all over it to make the language impenetrable to all but his rhythm section, and Person who flies over the top making the simple pop song into a work of groove jazz artistry. This disc is a welcome introduction to one of the great, all-but-lost talents in jazz history. was a guitarist's guitarist and an innovator in both production and arrangements. This disc is solid from top to bottom and reveals the restless spirit of a quiet yet demanding artist |
| 18. Thom Jurek |
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