New Orleans born pianist Henry Butler is both R&B and jazz, teacher and student, local and expatriate, disciplined and spontaneous – in other words, a player For All Seasons.

            Henry Butler sits at a piano with a sense of grandeur, of power, of great dignity. There is an air of formality about him that demands attention. His posture and composure are more akin to those of a concert pianist -- minus the tux and tails -- rather than a jazz and R&B musicia...