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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Billy Butler album)

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Released
  
1969

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (1970)
  
Night Life (1971)

Release date
  
1970

Label
  
Prestige Records

Length
  
33:03

Artist
  
Billy Butler

Producer
  
Bob Porter

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
April 27 and June 29, 1970 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

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Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow is the third album led by guitarist Billy Butler which was recorded in 1970 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Billy Butler 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".

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Butler except as indicated

  1. "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" - 5:14
  2. "Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup) - 4:57
  3. "Dancing on the Ceiling" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:45
  4. "Hold It!" (Billy Butler, Clifford Scott) - 3:52
  5. "Evening Dreams" - 4:11
  6. "The Butler Did It" - 3:49
  7. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) - 4:48
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on April 27 (tracks 5 & 6), and June 29 (tracks 1-4 & 7), 1970

    • Personnel

  • Billy Butler - guitar, bass guitar
  • Houston Person - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-4 & 7)
  • Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone, flute (tracks 5 & 6)
  • Ernie Hayes (tracks 1-4 & 7), Sonny Phillips (tracks 5 & 6) - organ, electric piano
  • Everett Barksdale, Billy Suyker - guitar (tracks 5 & 6)
  • Jimmy Lewis (tracks 1-4 & 7), Chuck Rainey (tracks 5 & 6) - electric bass
  • Jimmy Johnson - drums

    • References

    Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (Billy Butler album) Wikipedia
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