Miles in Berlin and "Frank Butz"

[chris]

There's an All About Jazz article about the Miles in Berlin cd that tells a story about "Frank Butz"-- a saxophone player who only played on the first track and then was called from the stage by the police. The whole article reads in a bizarre way: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21078

Is there any truth to this? Does "Frank Butz" exist? Does he appear on any of the tracks? The only reference I can find through Googling to Frank Butz is in this article... if it is true-- what happened to Frank?

[JSngry]

Bizarre indeed.

[DatDere]

Look at the publishing date...

Edited October 14, 2006 by DatDere

[mikeweil]

Frankie Butz ....... he should be a household name on the German scene, if only for this incident and Playing with Albert. Never heard of him, though.

But: it seems you overlooked this little ditty at the lower left of the article ..... :

[JSngry]

HA!

Good one!

[sidewinder]

Got me sweating for a hot minute until I saw the AAJ posting date !

Personnel: Miles Davis: trumpet; Wayne Shorter: tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock: piano; Ron Carter: bass; Tony Williams: drums, Frank Butz: alto saxophone.

Has a certain ring to it..

Edited October 14, 2006 by sidewinder

[mikeweil]

We all better prepare ourselves by studying this page:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1861

[sidewinder]

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Edited October 14, 2006 by sidewinder

[chris]

OK, so where's that embarrassed blushing smiley? Oh there...