[JPL] Alvin Batiste RIP

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For Immediate Release:

New Orleans morns the loss of veteran clarinetist Alvin Batiste who passed
away in his sleep early Sunday morning, May 6, 2007. Batiste was scheduled
to perform at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival later today.


New Orleans morns the loss of veteran clarinetist Alvin Batiste
NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans morns the loss of veteran clarinetist Alvin
Batiste who passed away in his sleep early Sunday morning, May 6, 2007.
Batiste was scheduled to perform at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
later today. 

His most current CD; Marsalis Music Honors Alvin Batiste is with Bradford
Marsilas and other notable Jazz musicians. It also includes a reading by
wife, Mrs. Edith Chatters Batiste.

Several well known musicians studied under Alvin Batiste while at Southern
University. They include Randy Jackson (American Idol), his brother Herman,
Brandford Marsalis, Donald Harrison, Henry Butler, Kent Jordan, Micheal
Ward, Herlin Riley, Charlie Singleton (Cameo), Woodie Douglas (Spirit) and
others.

His Columbia album billed him as a "Legendary Pioneer of Jazz." Alvin
Batiste is an avant-garde player who does not fit easily into any
classification. Under-recorded throughout his career, Batiste was a
childhood friend of Ed Blackwell and he spent time in Los Angeles in 1956
playing with Ornette Coleman. However, Batiste chose the life of an educator
in Louisiana where he taught music at Southern University in Baton Rouge
where her created the Batiste Jazz Institute and currently at the New
Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) where served as lead teacher in
jazz instrumental music.

Batiste recorded with the AFO ("all for one") quintet in New Orleans,
performed with Cannonball Adderley, and toured with Ray Charles in 1958, but
was an obscure legend until he made three albums with Clarinet Summit in the
1980s (a quartet also including John Carter, David Murray, and Jimmy
Hamilton). Batiste recorded an album, Bayou Magic, in 1988 as a leader for
India Navigation and made the 1993 Columbia album Late. Songs, Words and
Messages, Connections appeared in 1999, followed by Marsalis Music Honors
Alvin Batiste in 2007.

Batiste also performs on the Marlon Jordan featuring Stephanie Jordan 2005
CD which was a production of the Jordan-Chatters-Batiste family.

Arrangements will be announced onced complete.


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