news:

Johnny's rock/jazz/avant group SCURVY embarks on Northeast Spring Tour with a show at Otto's Shrunken Head April 25th!! Check out more here

Seattle shows announced!?!?! JB will be doing two shows this May in Seattle - check out his myspace for details

Earhot Jazz Magazine- "Butler's idiosyncrasy is clear... a keen sense of time and swing, great interpretations of standards, and a deft touch of composing...these performaces (were) triumphant returns." - Peter Monaghan. Check out the complete artice here

JAZZIZ Magazine - art for your ears: Johnny is featured in JAZZIZ Magazine with jazz quintet, the Sharkbites, playing Monkophile by pianist Kevin McHugh on the October 2006 CD Release!!! www.jazziz.com

The Kennedy Center releases video broadcast of the Oberlin Jazz Septet's sold out performance at the Millenium Stage! Click here to go to their website!

Oberiln Review Feature - "Saxophonist Tackles New Musical Frontiers; New Sublime Stylings of Johnny Surprize"

"...If the music had a top that was keeping everything inside, Butler took it off and released whatever was contained therein. Freedom is the word for such a sensation - the understanding of possibility, the sweet universal union of the out and the in, the exterior and the interior, the avant-garde and tradition..." -Sarah Politz