Editing Butch Warren (section)

==Biography==
Warren's mother was a typist at the CIA. His father, Edward Sr., was an electronics technician who played piano and organ part-time in clubs in Washington, D.C; his uncle, Quentin &mdash; actually the same age as Butch &mdash; played guitar. The Warren home was often visited by jazz musicians [[Billy Hart]], Jimmy Smith, and [[Stuff Smith]]. The first time Butch Warren played bass was at home on an instrument left by Billy Taylor, who had played bass for [[Duke Ellington]]. Warren has cited [[Jimmy Blanton]], the innovative and virtuoso bassist with Ellington from 1939 to 1941, as his biggest inspiration.<ref name="Russonello">{{cite web |last1=Russonello |first1=Giovanni |title=Butch Warren: To Hell & Back - JazzTimes |url=https://jazztimes.com/departments/overdue-ovation/butch-warren-to-hell-back/ |website=JazzTimes |accessdate=6 June 2018 |date=17 April 2012}}</ref>

Warren began playing professionally at age 14 in a Washington, D.C. band led by his father. He later worked with other local groups, including that of Stuff Smith, as well as with altoist and bandleader [[Rick Henderson]] at the [[Howard Theatre]].<ref name="Quick">{{cite web |last1=Quick |first1=Erik R. |title=Butch Warren |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22403 |website=All About Jazz |accessdate=6 June 2018 |date=21 July 2006}}</ref><ref name="Decades">{{cite news |last1=Fisher |first1=Marc |title=Decades of Discord Lie Between a Man and His Music |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/20/AR2006052001226.html |newspaper=Washington Post |accessdate=6 June 2018 |date=21 May 2006}}</ref>

When he was 19, he sat in with [[Kenny Dorham]] to substitute for an absent bassist. A few days later, Dorham invited him to New York City, where he spent the next six months as a sideman at a club in Brooklyn.<ref name="Russonello" /> He appeared on his first recording in January 1960 with Dorham, saxophonist Charles Davis, pianist [[Tommy Flanagan (musician)|Tommy Flanagan]], and drummer Buddy Enlow.<ref name="Quick"/> Through his friendship with [[Sonny Clark]], he recorded for [[Blue Note Records]] in 1961 on Clark's album ''Leapin' and Lopin{{'}}''. [[Alfred Lion]], producer at Blue Note, hired Warren to fill the vacancy of staff bassist. During this job he played on "[[Watermelon Man (composition)|Watermelon Man]]" with [[Herbie Hancock]].<ref name="Russonello" /> As sideman, he also recorded with [[Miles Davis]], [[Hank Mobley]], [[Donald Byrd]], [[Dexter Gordon]], [[Joe Henderson]], [[Jackie McLean]], and [[Stanley Turrentine]].<ref name="Decades" />

Mental illness and heroin addiction created problems for Warren. In 1963, his friend Sonny Clark died of an overdose. Months later, [[Thelonious Monk]] hired the 23-year-old Warren. Monk's band was surrounded by drugs and Warren quit after a yearlong tour. Moving back to D.C., he admitted himself to [[St. Elizabeths Hospital]].<ref name="Russonello" /> He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.<ref name="Keepnews">{{cite web |last1=Keepnews |first1=Peter |title=Butch Warren, 74, Prominent Jazz Bassist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/arts/music/butch-warren-74-prominent-jazz-bassist-dies.html |website=The New York Times |accessdate=6 June 2018 |date=23 October 2013}}</ref>

Following the onset of his illness he played professionally only occasionally, including a regular gig at the jazz club Columbia Station in Washington D.C.<ref name="Back">{{cite news |last1=Fisher |first1=Marc |title=Butch is Back: A Jazz Legend Resurfaces - Raw Fisher |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/07/butch_is_back_a_jazz_legend_re.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112123203/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/07/butch_is_back_a_jazz_legend_re.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 12, 2012 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=6 June 2018 |date=26 July 2007}}</ref>

His only solo effort was captured on "Butch's Blues" but he was better known as a sideman on many albums, including Dexter Gordon's ''[[Go (Dexter Gordon album)|Go]]''.<ref name="Yanow">{{cite web |last1=Yanow |first1=Scott |title=Butch Warren|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/butch-warren-mn0000939322/biography |website=AllMusic |accessdate=6 June 2018}}</ref>

He died of lung cancer in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]] at the age of 74.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/edward-butch-warren-washington-born-bassist-dies-at-74/2013/10/06/89a11a2e-2eb0-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008071311/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/edward-butch-warren-washington-born-bassist-dies-at-74/2013/10/06/89a11a2e-2eb0-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html |archive-date=2013-10-08 |title=Edward 'Butch' Warren, Washington-born bassist, dies at 74 - The Washington Post|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] }}</ref>