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Butcher Brown makes “solar music,” forward-thinking, expansive hybrids of jazz and hip-hop

infused with elements of funk, soul, rock, and every other sound under the sun. Their southern

psychedelic fusion has made them jazz festival mainstays who could just as easily headline

shows with the biggest names in rap and rock. In addition to touring with jazz giant Kamasi

Washington and sold-out European shows, they delivered an immersive NPR Tiny Desk

Concert in 2021, every improvisational leap therein stemming from the synergy and

inexhaustible musical curiosity of the band’s five members: drummer Corey Fonville,

producer/multi-instrumentalist DJ Harrison; bassist/composer Andrew Randazzo;

trumpeter/saxophonist/MC Marcus “Tennishu” Tenney; and guitarist Morgan Burrs.

Between classes at VCU’s jazz program and performances at local clubs, all congregated at

Harrison’s home studio: Jellowstone. Here they recorded their 2014 debut album, All Purpose

Music, a jazz odyssey that laid the foundation for a catalog that includes southern soul and rock

excursions, a raucous live album, jazz-funk fusion, and an Afrobeat tribute. Butcher Brown

turned a corner with their Concord Jazz debut, #KingButch, blurring the lines between soul-jazz

and boom-bap. The band’s latest album, Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey featuring

Tennishu and R4ND4ZZO BIGB4ND, deconstructs big band jazz and reshapes it in their image,

another brilliant blend of contemporary genre-smashing injected into the past.