Talk about eclectic.

Of all the varied and distinct experiences available each year at Jazz Fest, none stand out as uniquely comprehensive as pianist, singer and composer Henry Butler.

At the drop of a hat, Butler can take off on an improvisational rampage through the canon of African-American and European music, his playing colored by a deliberate and venturesome passion and complemented perfectly by awe-inspiring technique, the whole expressed through an internal logic at once intuiti...