THE MUSICIAN THEY CALL" BAT"
Photos provided by Upsplash Photos provided by Upsplash Most of us in the jazz world know the name,Batiste.We listen to the cool sounds of the entertainer Jon Batiste who is associated with the young music lions coming out of New Orleans today.You know the ones,Trombone Shorty,Kermit Ruffin,Ivan Neville,Kent Jordan,the Dirty Dozen Brass Band,Christian Scott,and the famed Marsalis Brothers. What do these family of players have in common you ask? Well,other than their approximation to a close knit and very closed unit of musicians from Nawlins' as we say down South ,the proverbial answer is one man they call "Bat". Alvin Batiste,jazz clarinet player virtuoso and the inventor of the "Cosmic Hipness". Alvin "Bat" Batiste was an educator, bandleader, composer and a mentor to hundreds of maybe thousands young musicians around the world. “Bat" won the Downbeat Jazz Poll Clarinetist of the Year so many times. And rightfully so I might add that most w