Brent Butterworth
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April 2011 Audio/Video Files
See Jam Blues: Video, Sound & the Home Theater Experience
How smart TVs, projectors and other video gear can expand the jazz experience
March 2011 Audio/Video Files
Audio Arisen: Latest Products from CES
Hot new sound gear steals the Consumer Electronics Show
January/February 2011 Audio/Video Files
10 of ’10: Ten Stellar Audio Products That Defined 2010
JT's sound guru recommends the year's best products
December 2010 Audio/Video Files
The Nice Price: Audio & Video Gift Ideas
Brent Butterworth on great gifts for any jazz lover on any budget
November 2010 Audio/Video Files
Vinyl in the Present: Groove Jazz
The vinyl record is on the scene again in a big way and Brent Butterworth explains how to get in the groove
October 2010 Audio/Video Files
Bob Belden: A Second Chance for Surround?
Producer/arranger/saxophonist Bob Belden argues that surround sound is ready for another opportunity
June 2010 Audio/Video Files
Out of This World
Brent Butterworth's roundup of the industry’s best boutique audio gear
May 2010 Audio/Video Files
Behold the ’Phones
Thanks to the iPod, headphones have undergone an explosion of innovation. Here’s our guide to new models worth wrapping around your head
March 2010 Audio/Video Files
CES: America’s Audio Playground
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas isn’t just about hot new TVs and cell phones—it’s packed with great new audio gear, too
January/February 2010 Audio Files
The Ear's Best
Brent Butterworth culls the most outstanding audio gear of 2009
December 2009 Audio/Video Files
’Tis the Season for Sound (and Sensibility)
Some fear that today’s weak economy will be the Grinch that steals the 2009 holiday season. Audiophiles, though, can rest assured of a happy December. While you might not emerge from your front door on Christmas day to discover a Maserati wrapped in a big...
November 2009 Audio/Video Files
From Grooves to Gigabytes
Converting your records to MP3 files is easy, thanks to innovative new hardware and software
October 2009 Audio Files
New Spins on the Old CD
Nearly three decades after their birth, CD players are still evolving.
August/September 2009 Audio Files
Power Trios: Sweet Speakers, A Solid Amp and a Smooth CD Player Are All You Need For Great Stereo Sound
Flip through a few magazines from the 1970s, and you might conclude that men were judged by the size of their stereos. Indeed, a towering rack (or two) of stereo gear once seemed as mission-critical as bushy sideburns and a Qiana shirt. While abundant facial...
May 2009 Audio Files
The Sidemen of the System
Quick—name three jazz artists. Who’d you pick? Bird? Miles? Hub? It’s a pretty safe bet you didn’t pick Jimmy Cobb or Paul Chambers. Great as they are, they’re best known as sidemen. They seldom get the recognition that the hotshot saxophonists and trumpeters...
April 2009 Audio Files
Visual Aids
Some music fans just hate movies. And after perusing a few of Hollywood’s recent tours de force, who among us would blame them? Still, it seems unfair to pamper your ears with Charles Lloyd’s latest while giving your eyes nothing to savor except a few liner...
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ReportAbout Brent Butterworth
Brent Butterworth has been writing about consumer electronics since 1989. Besides writing about audio and video for JazzTimes, he is a contributing technical editor to Sound & Vision magazine, and has worked as an editor for Home Entertainment, Home Theater, Video magazine, and others. He studied jazz at the University of North Texas and at the Drummer's Collective in New York City. His jazz performance experience includes a few years playing the Chapman Stick in saxophonist David Aaron's group Short Memory, plus occasional gigs and sessions on his first love: the ukulele.
Brent Butterworth joined the JazzTimes community on Dec 10, 2008