CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Batiste and Ellis: New Orleans in New York

At 22, Jonathan Batiste has already played Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and half-time at the 2008 NBA All-Star Game. The New York Times recently wrote that Batiste's piano playing is "stunning... spare, forceful, witty, funky, imaginative and coherent." JazzSet brings him up close from the Jazz Standard in New York, opening for saxophonist John Ellis and his spirited, funky Double-Wide quartet, with music from Dance Like There's No Tomorrow, featured on both Down Beat's and eMus...

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