Trumpeter/educator/bandleader Todd Butler is the veteran of the competition winners.
- BALTIMORE JAZZ COMPOSERS SHOWCASE WINNERS  

Todd Butler, an Eldersburg resident, recently won the Baltimore Jazz Alliance's Composers Competition.
- Q&A: Eldersburg resident, long-time jazz player, wins composition award  

DC Jazz Online has announced the winners in its first annual recording competition. Winner of the first place award was the selection "Nat's Groove" written by Todd Butler and performed by the Baltimore-based Todd Butler Group.
- Todd Butler Group Wins DC Jazz Recording Competition

Eldersburg resident Todd Butler, who has been playing the trumpet since he was a teenager and whose popular jazz quintet has drawn critical acclaim in the region, has written "Mojo," which will premiere on Sept. 29 at Loyola University Maryland performed by the Baltimore Jazz Alliance.
- Eldersburg trumpeter's 'Mojo' to be featured at weekend concert  

He leads his group by example, bringing out a lithe, brassy tone.
-Baltimore Magazine

For one who is reasonably new on the scene, 30 year old trumpeter/ educator Todd Butler has made a lot of inroads in 10 short years. Butler has used his talent, time and learning to develop some great "chops" and a good realistic attitude, a major survival technique.
- Todd Butler - Too Legit to Quit

The Todd Butler Group and its individual members were honored in the fifteenth annual reader's poll conducted by Music Monthly Magazine.
- Music Monthly Readers Vote TBG "Best In Jazz"