We lost The Jazz Butcher (aka Pat Fish) this week when he died suddenly on Tuesday, but it turns out he has one more gift of music for us. He recorded a new album, his first in a decade, over the ...

Pat Fish, the guitarist, bassist, and bandleader best known for his work as the Jazz Butcher, has died. The news was shared by his longtime collaborator Max Eider and his former label Glass Modern.

Pat Fish, who performed as The Jazz Butcher for nearly 40 years, has died. He was 64. Word came via his frequent collaborator and lead guitarist Max Eider, who wrote, “Very sad to announce that my old ...

The Jazz Butcher, aka Pat Fish, has been creating ditties since he was in his late teens. At first he was uncertain whether anyone would be interested in his music, but after releases initially on ...

Sneaking into Austin’s Liberty Lunch in 1990 was one of my high points during the twilight of my teen years. Being 18 years old and broke during my first year of college made an instant miscreant out ...

The final album from the mercurial post-punk project offers a wellspring of quotable surrealism, showing the substance and self-definition of the late Pat Fish. “Fishy go to Heaven, get along, get ...

Defiantly English before Blur, resolutely droll before Morrissey, the Jazz Butcher is a neglected chapter in '80s pop. So here, at last, are the first CD editions in almost ten years of their two best ...

This morning we posted a look back at some of Milwaukee's dead and gone Downtown rock and roll clubs. Here, Bobby Tanzilo recalls a few of them.