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Paul Batiste band leader and manager
The Batiste Brand is instrumental in promoting and marketing "Louisiana Music"/"American Music" and traditions. Since the seventies, Batiste has toured, showcased and touted the culture of the region. We are engaged in the music, the people and business of the south. John J. Batiste Sr. and Estella Curtis Batiste are the nucleus of a large musical family. Dad and Mom pushed and sacrificed to send us in the direction of entertainment. They had experience the difficulties and hardships of performing and wanting to perform for a living, and in spite of what they saw, they still aggregated (Together we stand - Divided we fall) and prodded us to move forward in music.
Over the years, multiples of venues and halls have seen Batiste perform. From corner Bars, Churches, Fields, Flat Bed Trucks, Floats, Boats, to Schools, Batiste has been in demand. With the artistry, leadership and creativity of Paul A. Batiste - who has a degree in Music Education, an Honorable Discharge from the US Army and a career of teaching music for over 30 years, the name "Batiste" has earned World Wide acclaim. Paul has endeavored to walk in the footsteps of John Sr. and Estella. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the Brand has significant value.
Educators, Prominent figures in the world, Politicians, Businessmen, Entrepreneurs, Entertainers, Promoters, Artist and the like have expressed interest in the Brand. The Brand has catapulted Batiste members to stardom and fame.
Batiste has earned it's place in the realms of "Distinction." Traveling locally and nationally for the sake of entertainment and sometimes not being adequately acknowledged and rewarded, but there to promote and glorify a trade - of and under recognized region of excellence in Art
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Paul Andrea Jean Batiste
Leader of the Batiste Brothers Band
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Excerpts from memoirs of paul a. batiste
IN THIS BOOK:
“ Eventually, I became a 71H Clerk Typist. Then, my MOS or job description was to operate the mailroom, distribution of correspondence on base, Clerk in the Provost Marshall’s Office and to escort prisoners and security shipments around the country. Ironically, the enlisted men thought that I was undercover police. However, I had a friend who was 95B Military Police patrol officer around the base. I nicknamed him 95. He and I started a band and everyone loved us. We hired Harvey to sing for us and we played often.
My best friend was Clifford Richardson. He was an MP also, but he was the consummate Military Police. After the service, he became a Postal Police in Chicago. Cliff introduced me to Chicago and we had fun on post. I dated Shirley Harvin who was also in the Army.
Subsequently, Chicago was different from what I expected. I thought it would be a city..............”
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(Gon' be Dat) New Orleans Music-Memoirs of PAB
Paul A. Batiste
Alvin Batiste
“similar to New Orleans only with more opportunities for musicians. On the contrary, there were very few local bands. We met musicians who had visited New Orleans and specifically Southern University at Baton Rouge. Alvin Batiste was an important figure to the Jazz musicians in Chicago. Also, Mr. Batiste’s festival on the “yard” was significant and relevant to Jazz students. Some of them had attended Southern University at Baton Rouge.
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(Gon' be Dat) New Orleans Music-Memoirs of PAB
Paul A. Batiste
“ Kidd liked to lecture about his friend Cannonball Adderley. Kid talked about John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Miles Davis in all of our classes with him. Everyday was filled with an attempt to invent music and study avant garde jazz.
At Clark Terry’s workshop, I learned about the double diminished or half diminished scale. The scale looks like two scales running parallel. Patterns were written from the scale to make licks. Well, one could play two to five seven turnarounds and write licks on top of it. Mr. Terry is a trumpeter and world renowned jazz clinician. Grover Washington, Jr., visited SUNO and he was fascinated by the culture of saxophonist in New Orleans. Cannonball would”
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(Gon' be Dat) New Orleans Music-Memoirs of PAB
Paul A. Batiste
Isaac Hayes
“Isaac Hayes comes to Fort Polk
The Stax Review came to Fort Polk with Rufus and Carla Thomas, Booker T. and the M.G.’s, Sam and Dave and the Soul Children.
When I was at the concert, I went to the back stage area where there was a fence. I shouted to Isaac Hayes to let me in. He came to the fence and told me to go to the back stage entrance.
He let me in the back gate and immedia”
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(Gon' be Dat) New Orleans Music-Memoirs of PAB
Paul A. Batiste
“He let me in the back gate and immediately called Booker of Booker T. & the M.G.‘s. Isaac introduced me to the band. He said, “This is the guitar player I was telling you about. He plays with the funky pecking style and the drummer plays with the funky upper meter. Steve Cropper, the guitarist, was a guitarist I had listened to and played his solos on “Hip Hugger.” Isaac said he was still going to record “’Funky Soul,” but he never recorded it again. He became increasingly famous and we never heard from him again.
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(Gon' be Dat) New Orleans Music-Memoirs of PAB
Paul A. Batiste
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When the kids are away, their
Teachers will play!
Talented teachers by day turn into celebrated
musicians by night.
Stories by KENNETH SNOW
Contributing writer
They listen to loud music, run with a fast crowd and stay out late. After a particularly rowdy night, you
may even see their pictures in the newspaper. And they have a powerful influence on your child.
Fifteen years old and onstage, live at the Apollo! That day in 1965, Paul Batiste was far more interested
in finishing his schooling than in making a career of it. The performance was a talent show and the Gladiators, who
had driven all the way from New Orleans, had won.
" Another one of my biggest thrills in high school was when we backed up Aaron Neville in a live performance of
"Tell It Like It Is.' " Batiste said. "In the "70s we opened for a lot of bands like The Temptations, O'Jays, Major Lance
(of Monkey Time' fame) and Chris Kenner, who did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' "
Today the Batiste Brothers Band records on its own label, Artang Records, and has produced
two CDs, "Spice" (1991) and the recently released "New Orleans Music." On that one, he plays guitar,
keyboards and sings.
Meanwhile, the local favorites have begun to build a strong international following, especially in Japan.
In 1992 they were the first New Orleans group to play the Kobe Urban Resort Fair, where they
were warned not to be offended by a low key response from the reserved Japanese audience.
"But before we were finished, " Batiste said, "they were second-lining up on the stage with us. Those
10,000 people were all up and dancing."
The performance that sparked a love affair with New Orleans sound -- more than 60 local
performers were invited to last year's fair -- was all in a day's work for a man who has taught music
in Orleans Parish for over a decade.
Batiste began studies for a music education degree at Southern University in New Orleans in 1971.
"I went to SUNO to learn music theory.....in hopes of pursuing a performing career," he said.
However, his instructors persuaded him to turn toward teaching, Another push came when he
found that he had a gift for communicating with children while teaching music at a summer camp.
As for growing fame and international appearances, "I'm entrenched in education," he said. "I have thorough
plans for my future that includes going back for my master's and opening a private music school in New Orleans."
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TRIBUTE TO SANTANA
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PAUL BATISTE
SEDUCTIVE RECITAL (THE GIFT)
seductive recital (the gift)
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