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Goes To Africa With Love

by Southern University Jazz Ensemble

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    First ever commercial releases of New Orleans’ legend Alvin Batiste’s Spiritual Jazz albums created with the college band he instructed and led in Baton Rouge – 'Goes To Africa With Love' and 'Live at The 1971 American College Jazz Festival.'

    'Goes To Africa With Love' was mixed from the original multi-track tapes and is now presented as a 2LP with never-before-released instrumentals.

    Each album contains extensive booklet detailing Batiste’s life and his time spent honing and recording this remarkable band of young students.

    Bandcamp purchasers get the booklet as bonus PDF and bonus instrumental tracks not available elsewhere, even on the vinyl album!
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    First ever commercial releases of New Orleans’ legend Alvin Batiste’s Spiritual Jazz albums created with the college band he instructed and led in Baton Rouge – Goes To Africa With Love and Live at The 1971 American College Jazz Festival

    Goes To Africa With Love was mixed from the original multi-track tapes and is now presented as a 2LP with never-before-released instrumentals.

    Each album contains extensive booklet detailing Batiste’s life and his time spent honing and recording this remarkable band of young students.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Goes To Africa With Love via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about

That one of the great Spiritual Jazz albums of the era could be found in duplicate New Orleans thrift store in the 1980s goes a long way in illustrating the lack of acclaim this special and overlooked album maintained, even in a city where the Batiste name is musical royalty. The Southern University albums Alvin Batiste offered the world were novelies, not worthy of serious consideration, a moment captured, but not necessarily worthy of being collected or preserved by anyone not immediately involved in its creation.

That changes now. With the release of the two Southern University albums, Now-Again continues a conversation begun with the late Kashmere Stage Band director Conrad O. Johnson and the issue of his high school students’ music as 'Texas Thunder Soul', and the continued belief that beautiful music created by youth – even under the most adverse circumstances – can always inspire us.

credits

released June 23, 2023

This anthology produced, with an introduction by, Eothen Alapatt

Licensed by The Batiste Family

Liner notes by Bret Sjerven

Mixing, mastering, restoration and remastering by Jason Bitner

Tape restoration and transfers by Dan Johnson for Audio Archiving

Vinyl transfers by Tanner McCrary

Art direction by Errol F. Richardson

Edith Batiste would like to dedicate this album to her husband, the late
Alvin Batiste:
“To the love of my life, my husband, my friend and my soulmate. Let
these few words express who he really is.

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New Orleans’ legend Alvin Batiste’s Spiritual Jazz created with the college band he instructed and led in Baton Rouge

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