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This is the first-ever commercial releases of New Orleans’ legend Alvin Batiste’s Spiritual Jazz albums created with the college band he instructed and led in Baton Rouge. Originally given away as souvenirs at Southern University, the two albums contains deep Batiste originals and, on Live, are paired with excellent John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard covers. They are some of the most sought after albums of Americas 70s jazz underground.
Tracklist:
A1. Music Came
A2. Tunjii
A3. Straight Life
A4. North American Idiosyncrasy
B1. Milestones
B2. In My Solitude
B3. So What
B4. God Save Us A Song (A Negro Spiritual)
Personnel:
FLUTE
Henry Scott –
Arranger
CLARINET
Arthur Marcal –
Organ and Bell Drum
HARMONICA
Adrian Lanier
VOCALS AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
Ernest Jackson
Edward Perkins
ALTO SAXOPHONES
Vincent York – oboe, section leader
Willie Keyes – arranger
Roy Johnson – arranger
TENOR SAXOPHONES
Kirk Ford (award recipient)
Gerald Anderson
BARITONE SAXOPHONE
Reginald Houston
(Award winner 1970) reciter
TRUMPETS
Raymond Deggs
Andrew “Candy” Gerrard
Kenneth Hardin
Walter Walker
Willie Tucker
Charles Randolph
BUSINESS MANAGERS
John Banks – Alto Saxophone
Kirk Stuart – Arranger, Pianist, Conductor Assistant
Alvin Batiste – Director, Clarinet, Arranger, Composer
PERCUSSION AND PROPERTY MANAGER
Clarence Acox
TROMBONES
Terral Jackson
Lloyd Oby (Award Winner)
Lester Williams – arranger
Clifford Landry
Nelson Jasmin
Nathaniel Brickens
TUBA
Robert Jackson
FRENCH HORNS
Wadie Ervin – arranger
Emanuel Billups
Gable Watkins – piano
PIANO
Henry Butler – Captain
ELECTRIC PIANO
Daryl Jefferson
BASS
Julius Farmer
Gibson Sewell
DRUMS
Herman Jackson
SPECIAL INSTRUMENTS
Emerson Bell
LIBRARIAN
Ernest Nation-trumpet
ANNOUNCER
Charles “Chuck” Siler
Credits:
This anthology produced, with an introduction by, Eothen Alapatt
Licensed by The Batiste Family
Liner Notes by Bret Sjerven
Mixing, mastering, restoration and remastering by Jason Bitner
Tape restoration and transfers by Dan Johnson for Audio Archiving
Vinyl transfers by Tanner McCrary
Art Direction by Errol F. Richardson
LP, Digital. 2023. NA5243.