Montreal-based pianist Taurey Butler is a native of East Orange, New Jersey and now makes his home in Montreal. During his last year of high school, a prescient teacher, who was also a distinguished percussionist, Barry Centanni handed Taurey a CD of Oscar Peterson and advised him to listen.

He did, and from then on, he knew where he was going. “I didn’t know a piano could do that!” he recalls and began to focus more on jazz studies.

With his self-titled debut, released on Justin Time Records in 2011, Butler firmly established his signature artistry in his adopted home base – he is a well-known and favorite performer in Montreal’s preeminent jazz clubs, including Dièse Onze, the Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill and the illustrious Festival International de Jazz de Montréal.

He has toured internationally with stops in Asia, the Middle East, and in the USA including New York City’s Blue Note Jazz Club and The Cotton Club in New Orleans as well as the Detroit and JVC Jazz Festivals.

The pianist teams up with Montreal-based Justin Time again for One Of The Others, set for release on October 7th, 2022.

The trio recording is a genuine, creative deepness of effort, and is selflessly shared. The album delivers the real Butler in a musical representation of who he is, and what he feels, a suite of truly personal and personalized tracks.

1. One Of The Others
2. Artis’ Truth
3. Swappin’ Lies
4. On The Natch
5. Smile
6. Nutfog
7. Sisyphean Task
8. What Is This Thing Called Love?
9. Can’t Buy Me Love
10. Laini’s Love
11. I Can Only Be Me

This beautifully crafted, stupendously melodic new album opens on the confident swagger of the titular One Of The Others and the Dave Brubeck-esque waltz of Artis’ Truth and then comes the controlled frenetic-ism of Swappin’ Lies, the joyful soul of On The Natch and then we get the merrily purposeful, yet noticeably whimsical Smile.

This throwback trio set continues onward with the ornately sculptured Nutfog which is itself backed by the forward perch found within the rhythmic Sisyphean Task, then comes the fleet-footed What Is This Thing Called Love?, their subdued rendition of Lennon & McCartney’s Can’t Buy Me Love, the album closing on the melodically paced Laini’s Love and a loving stillness found within the balladry gossamer of I Can Only Be Me.

One Of The Others is also one of the tracks on the album and like a title or heading it is an expression of the thoughts and musings presented throughout about being an outsider in a new and strange, but immediately, not so strange land.

With Wali Muhammad on drums and Morgan Moore on bass, Butler tells us his story through eleven songs some authored and some re-imagined and authored. Listen to this music and travel the Taurey Butler migration from his then to his now.

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