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15. Nov. 2002 · Battiste passed away on June 19, 2015 at age 83. Musician, composer, arranger, performer and teacher, Harold Raymond Battiste, Jr. was born October 28, 1931, in New Orleans. Young Battiste loved the rich music of his New Orleans neighborhood. Graduating from Gilbert Academy in 1948, Battiste attended New Orleans' Dillard University, earning a B ...
Real Name: Harold Raymond Battiste, Jr. Profile: American jazz and rhythm n' blues saxophonist, composer, arranger, educator, and label owner. He played with Dr. John, Sam Cooke, Barbara George, Ellis Marsalis among others. Founded the label A.F.O. Records, was as the New Orleans branch manager of Specialty records, and held an A&R post at Ron ...
Recorded in 1961, Prince La La was the first artist on AFO Records and this was his “hit.”. 1962. Ya Ya – Lee Dorsey. Lee Dorsey’s first “hit” produced by Battiste in 1961. 1965-1966. These are four of the “hits” by Sonny and Cher with Harold Battiste as their music director, arranger and co-producer. I Got You Babe.
by Harold R. Battiste Jr. with Karen Celestan. The Historic New Orleans Collection 2010. hardcover • 8" × 10" • 208 pp. 75 color images, 61 b/w images. ISBN 978-0-917860-55-3. Available from The Shop at The Collection for $28.95. Unfinished Blues is the story, told in his own words, of New Orleans composer, producer, arranger, educator ...
10. Apr. 2024 · Had it not been for Harold R. Battiste Jr. and his creativity, the records and these singers might not have been as successful. Battiste, also known as “Dr. Bat,” was a composer, producer, arranger, educator and jazz ambassador. He launched the careers of Sonny & Cher and Cooke, and transformed Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. into Dr. John.
21. Juni 2015 · Harold Battiste was born on October 28 1931 in New Orleans and educated at Gilbert Academy in the city. He went on to read Music Education at Dillard University, New Orleans, graduating in 1952.
Harold also played piano for Tom Waits‘s songs “Whistlin’ Past The Graveyard” and “A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun” on Blue Valentine (1978).Battiste has also been a lecturer at several colleges, and in 1989, he joined Ellis Marsalis on the Jazz Studies faculty of the University of New Orleans.
