Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-03-13 22:23
Looks an awful lot like Alvin Batiste. Influenced by Ed and Herb Hall, Batiste started on the Albert System clarinet and later switched to Boehm. Cannonball Adderly once asked Alvin how he could manage to play so many different styles of music, and he replied that that's what you had to do in New Orleans. Batiste studied classical clarinet with Olando Tognozzi, an Opperman protege, played in an Army band, toured with Ray Charles, Freddie Hubbard, and Ron Carter, was friends with Ed Blackwell (Coltrane's drummer) and Ornette Coleman, and was directly influenced by Charlie Parker (whom he met on Parker's one and probably only engagement in New Orleans) and Sonny Stitt. Batiste developed his own bop and post-bop clarinet style, fully conscious of the New Orleans jazz tradition (he transcribed 21 of the Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings). He could switch seamlessly from playing High Society to Coleman's "Lonely Woman," covering the history of jazz and not copying any other jazz clarinetist. He could play with a high energy rock group and fit right in or just as well accompany a church choir or appear in one of Wynton's groups. He played the Mozart Concerto too and it was all music to his ears.
I can't say 100% that this is Batiste, but the player closely resembles him.
The transparent Buffet threw me off. Don't ever recall Batiste playing one.
Post Edited (2018-03-14 01:03)
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