LaVerne Butler

LaVerne Butler

LaVerne Butler

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Sunday in New York
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I Cover the Waterfront
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The Song Is You
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Two Different Worlds
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Albums

  • I Love the Lion

    Jan 2021 • 1 song

  • Check Your Dreams at the Door
  • Blues in the City

    Mar 2016 • 13 songs

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LaVerne Butler

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 father, saxophonist Scott Butler. After leaving Shreveport, she moved to New Orleans, where she studied music at the University of New Orleans and become a fixture in the city's Dixieland and bebop venues. Butler worked with such distinguished locals as Alvin Batiste, Ellis Marsali...
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