| Batiste, Jon / Hollywood Africans |
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| Album: | Hollywood Africans | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Batiste, Jon | Added: | Oct 2018 | |
| Label: | Verve Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2018-11-04 | Pull Date: | 2019-01-06 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jan 6 | Dec 30 | Dec 23 | Dec 16 | Dec 9 | Dec 2 | Nov 25 | Nov 18 |
| Airplays: | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 08, 2021: | Clean Copper Radio for Fo (rebroadcast from Jan 3, 2019) What A Wonderful World | 4. | Jan 05, 2019: | Music Casserole Saint James Infirmary Blues | |
| 2. | Jan 08, 2019: | Clean Copper Radio Mr. Buddy | 5. | Jan 04, 2019: | Old Fart At Play Saint James Infirmary Blues | |
| 3. | Jan 05, 2019: | Hanging in the Bone Yard Kenner Boogie | 6. | Jan 03, 2019: | Clean Copper Radio for Thursday's Child Don't Stop |
| Album Review |
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| Tom McCarter Reviewed 2018-10-31 | ||
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Reviewed: 2018-10-31 Genre: Jazz FCCs: none Review: The mood is introspective. Even the most declarative tracks suggest vulnerability. Mr. Batiste combines well-known songs and original compositions to form a fairly seamless statement that nods toward legacies but sounds personal. Through his song choices and his performances, he implies a tension between pure joy and deep sadness. His original lyrics focus on love’s many manifestations. He is gentle and mannered; he’s no radical. Nonetheless, his new music represents an elegant meditation on complicated truths from a young black man thrust into stardom, still sorting out traditions of richness and pain. If You Like: Henry Butler, Joe Williams, Johnny Hartman, Leonard Cohen Track Review (favorites denoted by *): Joe Williams, Art Tatum, Leonard Cohen **1/ Kenner Boogie (3:23) –rocking uptempo piano solo> quick stop 2/ What A Wonderful World (4:54) – piano starts> slow song> quick fade *3/ Chopinesque (3:32) – slow piano solo builds in intensity & complexity> stop 4/ Saint James Infirmary Blues (4:19) – vocal starts> slow song> piano solo> fade *5/ Nocturne No. 1 In D Minor (3:28) – midtempo piano solo> quick stop *6/ The Very Thought Of You (4:35) – piano starts> slow song> piano solo to stop 7/ Green Hill Zone (2;54) – midtempo piano solo> strings kick in> fade *8/ My Buddy (3:44) – piano starts> quirky midtempo song> piano solo> midtempo song> fade *9/ Is It Over (5:38) – piano starts> slow song swells in volume & intensity then subsides, then swells again> quick fade 10/ Smile (1:12) – short slow piano solo **11/ Don’t Stop (3:50) – piano starts> slow song swells in volume & intensity then subsides several times> slow fade | ||
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