Jon Batiste releases the Spotify series Live at Electric Lady EP

Jazz pianist and vocalist Jon Batiste has had an outstanding year topped by winning the Oscar and Bafta for best original score with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Soul. Batiste's EP Live at Electric Lady is part of a Spotify series recorded at …

Published: 30 Jul 2021. Updated: 2 years.

Jazz pianist and vocalist Jon Batiste has had an outstanding year topped by winning the Oscar and Bafta for best original score with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Soul.

Batiste's EP Live at Electric Lady is part of a Spotify series recorded at the legendary studio in New York. And with Batiste are from the Second Great Miles Davis Quintet Ron Carter, NTU Troop legend Gary Bartz, and the alto saxophonist who was significant in the late-period career of Miles Davis, Kenny Garett, among the personnel.

The EP partly re-spins We Are, Batiste's album released this year, and adds a number of covers included a treatment of Stevie Wonder's 'Pastime Paradise' recorded at the famed studio where Jimi Hendrix made history. Tracks are We Are (with Kenny Garrett); I Need You (Ron Carter, Jon Batiste, Joe Saylor [percussionist from Batiste's Stay Human]); Golden Slumbers (Gary Bartz, Ron Carter); Cry (Gary Bartz, Ron Carter); Lose Yourself To Dance (Kenny Garett, Ron Carter); Whatchutalkinbout (Ron Carter); Pastime Paradise (Kenny Garett) and Prince (Ron Carter, Kenny Garett).

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Julien Lourau on supreme form paying homage to CTI

Jim Hart is crucial to the deep jazzhead spell conjured by French sax ace Julien Lourau in a supreme homage to the CTI label Power Of Soul: The Music of CTI coming up. The tracks streaming so far are perfect. It's late-August for the release to be …

Published: 29 Jul 2021. Updated: 2 years.

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Jim Hart is crucial to the deep jazzhead spell conjured by French sax ace Julien Lourau in a supreme homage to the CTI label Power Of Soul: The Music of CTI coming up. The tracks streaming so far are perfect. It's late-August for the release to be issued by the Komos label with in addition to Lourau and Hart the main personnel of Arnaud Roulin on analogue synths, Léo Jassef playing piano and the Prophet 5 plus Sylvain Daniel on bass. Bojan Z crops up among additional personnel on 'Love and Peace'. Could this be a significant milestone in Lourau's already stellar career? Who knows but certainly looking like it. There's so much personality in all these tracks and lap up the tasty overdubs on the kicking version of 'Red Clay' why not.