I am Adele

Master jazz clarinetist Alvin Batiste is a living repudiation of the old adage ‘Those who can, do, those who can’t teach’. For many years head of the music programme at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Batiste put his students’ needs above his own career as a musician, devoting himself to teaching jazz and musicianship at the historically black university. Under-recorded and under-known by the larger audience, Batiste is a superb musician whose supple sound moves from free jazz to ballads to avant-garde. He’ll be at Snug Harbor for one night with his current line-up of Jazztronauts, an always hot band that has been home to many of his finest students.