Adventures of Bread & Butter, Vol. 1 [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Bread & Butter

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 4, 1998)
• Original Release Date: August 4, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Jazzateria
• ASIN: B000009OF3
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #549,823 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Jim Macnie Village Voice/Down Beat
"...I hear the thrills of passion in this swirl of funk and jazz from this team of club kids."

About the Artist
BREAD & BUTTER: Andrew Sherman "Bread" was born in Eugene, Oregon on November 16, 1967. Craig Glanville "Butter" was born in New York City on March 13, 1969.

Butter started playing violin at the age of 3 and at the age of 11 began playing drums. Butter attended the Harlem School of the Arts and then went on to Berklee College of Music in 1987. While at Berklee he studied with Charlie Persip and performed with Andre Ward and Renaissance. He cites his late uncle Dizzy Gillespie, his father a self-taught bassist, Joe Jones, The Jackson Five, and The Silvers as musicial influences.

Bread began playing piano at the age of 5. He attended High School in Oregon and played in the choir and jazz band. He has been influenced by Miles Mays, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Donny Hathaway, and Pat Metheny, and his parents who were involved in local theatre. After graduating from high school he came East to attend Berklee College of Music in 1986.

Craig and Andrew met in 1987 on a local gig. In 1990 Bread & Butter formed a company where their creative forces would be joined in producing and song writing. Bread & Butter started working with Lalah Hathaway, Walter Beasley and Najee. Bread toured with Freddie Jackson, Najee and Melissa Morgan in 1991. Bread went on to tour with Brian McNight, Jonathan Butler, Phyllis Hyman, and Mikki Howard.

In 1994 Bread & Butter produced Rohn Lawrence's debut album Hangin' On A String (Atlantic Jazz) and "See Ya around". They also have compositions on Walter Beasley's album Intimacy (Mercury), Najee's latest album Share My World (EMI), Lalah Hathaway's last recording A Moment (Virgin), and The Rebirth of Cool 4 (Island/UK), and tracks on Brandy's albums to name a few.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pharcyde meets Jazzmatazz, July 17, 1999

By A Customer

Nice little batch of hip hop n jazz cuts based around the talents of producers/performers Andrew "Bread" Sherman and the B-boy "Butter". They spin out a nice batch of short but funky tracks that blend hip hop rhythms with a classic jazz sensibility-- and which feature a stunning array of guest stars, including Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Hargrove, La Lah Hathaway, Kenny Garrett, and Dana Bryant, who does her usual hipster poetry thing. The set's got 18 tracks in all. There's not really any rapping, despite the "hip hop" sound. Instead, the set grooves with the sort of vibe that you'd find on Greyboy's Ubiquity albums.

4.0 out of 5 stars Hip-hop bread and loungey butter, June 13, 2000

By	John Jones "Musician" (Chicago IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Producers/performers Bread & Butter raise the standards of hip-hop and lounge music on this ultra-cool release. In a smiliar vein as the Brand New Heavies or D'Angelo, B&B take the funkiest, fiercest of beats and match them with sophisticated jazz stylings, making a most striking and exhilirating contrast.

The short but infectious tracks are more about mood than actual melody, but this isn't to the record's detriment; keyboard licks and sampled horn riffs work their way into your consciousness the way a catchy chorus might. If anything it's a strength to the testament of the grooves when you find yourself wishing that the tracks were longer.

The only thing B&B should have done differently was stick to the occasional sung vocal. The spoken word tracks (a hilarious satire on the evils of rap music on "Dramatic Dialect" and a preachy sermon on "Burn Baby Burn") break the flow of the record, but at least they're sequenced back to back. The bottom line is, whether it's the midtempo funk of "Rescue Me" and "Come Back Home" or the seductive mellow vibe of "24/7" (featuring a lush flugelhorn by Roy Hargrove and rich vocals by Lalah Hathaway), this is a collection of songs that the hardest of hip-hoppers and the coolest of jazz cats can groove on together. For that alone Bread & Butter deserve congratulations.

5.0 out of 5 stars Pharcyde meets Jazzmatzz, July 17, 1999

By A Customer

Nice little batch of hip hop n jazz cuts based around the talents of producers/performers Andrew "Bread" Sherman and b-boy "Butter". They spin out a nice batch of short but funky tracks that blend hip hop rhythms with a classic jazz sensibility -- and which feature a stunning array of guest stars, including Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Hargrove, La Lah Hathaway, Kenny Garrett, and Dana Bryant, who does her usual hipster poetry thing. The set's got 18 tracks in all. There's not really any rapping, despite the "hip hop" sound. Instead, the set grooves with the sort of vibe that you'd find on Greyboy's Ubiquity albums.