The New Orleans-born pianist and singer Henry Butler, now in his mid-60s and a Brooklyn resident, delivers gigs as if they were full-immersion lessons: in old New Orleans repertory, gospel music, American theater songs, 1960s jazz, Southern rhythm and blues and soul. He’s a virtuosic pianist and a startling baritone singer; he’s inevitably the focus of whatever bands he plays in, and exactly the right performer to hear playing unaccompanied, tracing a casually authoritative history of American music. At Minton’s, the Harlem jazz club that has been tightening up its bookings in exciting ways, he’ll play on April 16, with sets at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. (206 West 118th Street, 212-243-2222; mintonsharlem.com.)
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