Author: Markos
Date: 2017-08-25 20:07
And I would like to address Mr. Seabreeze......who's knowledge of all things NOLA has been a revelation to me......
I have been to NOLA five times, four times for Jazz Fest and once for the Clarinet Conference in 2001. Alvin Batiste has always been a favorite of mine, I think I have pretty much everything he ever recorded.....Alvin was so nice to me when I met him in 2001. I think I heard him every time I made a trip down.....As I said previously he was working on a string quartet which he played at the Conference, it was him and a string quartet, in which he had a bunch of improvisation mixed in for himself. He also did a gig that week at Snug's and played a version of that piece with his quartet.
So....
1. Did that ever get recorded or put out?
2. Are there Batiste clarinet students out there or anyone carrying on his tradition?
I bought something from him at the Conference he was selling called Developmental Routines for the Improvising Clarinetist Vol 3.....
Does anyone have copies of these and if so can they be found anywhere, or can any of his music be found anywhere? How many volumes are there? He was a brilliant thinker and incredibly visionary....
Thanks for your consideration......
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