Laverne Butler

Laverne Butler
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Styles: Standards, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
Biography: Not to be confused with R&B great LaVern Baker, LaVerne Butler is a superb but underexposed jazz singer whose main influences include Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan. Butler is originally from Shreveport, LA, where she grew up listening to jazz and R&B extensively with a lot of encouragement from her ...Read full biography
A Foolish Thing To Do
Released: 2001
Label: Max Production Co.
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LaVerne Butler's jazz vocals on A Foolish Thing To Do emphasizes her fluid mastery of the jazz form and her genuine joy in the music. The beautiful vocalist sings 12 blues-inflected jazz gems written by ...Read full review
Day Dreamin'
Released: 1994
Label: Chesky Records
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With LaVerne Butler having provided so much passionate, intense hard bop on her debut album, No Looking Back, it came as quite a surprise when the singer took a more mellow and laidback approach on her ...Read full review
More Laverne Butler albums: Main Albums (4)
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