| Late | ||||
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| Released | 1993 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Columbia [1] | |||
| Producer | Alvin Batiste | |||
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Late is an album by the American clarinetist Alvin Batiste, released in 1993. [2] [3] Issued as part of Columbia Records' "Legendary Pioneers of Jazz" series, it was Batiste's first album for a major label. [4] [5]
The album was produced by Batiste. [6] He led Kenny Barron on piano, Rufus Reid on bass, and Herman Jackson on drums. [7] Batiste wrote six of the album's eight songs. [8] "Banjo Noir" was inspired by a Creole folk song from the 1800s. [9] "Ray's Segue" is based on a melody that Ray Charles would play. [10] "Imp and Perry" is based on John Coltrane's "Countdown". [11] Wessell Anderson played saxophone on "Body and Soul". [12]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [13] |
| Chicago Sun-Times | [14] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [15] |
| MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide |  [6] |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | [16] |
The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "Always light and elegant, Batiste weaves delicate, diaphanous strands on the title track and manages a street sensibility coupled with a highbrow complexity on 'Bat's Blues'." [16] The Chicago Tribune stated that "Batiste adds an alert technique and an intense, compositional approach to improvisation." [17] The Chicago Sun-Times wrote that "notes curl like liquid smoke from his blues treatments." [14]
The Times-Picayune stated that "Batiste's round, mellow tone alternates with tweaking arpeggios, gruff growls and jittering chromatics." [18] The New York Times listed Late among 1993's best jazz albums, noting that it moves "from absolutely cool late night atmospherics, to the experimental, and it always swings." [19]
AllMusic wrote that Batiste "has a conventional and pleasing tone that he utilizes to improvise in an unusual and harmonically advanced style." [13]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Late" | |
| 2. | "Imp and Perry" | |
| 3. | "Bat's Blues" | |
| 4. | "Body and Soul" | |
| 5. | "Banjo Noir" | |
| 6. | "Ray's Segue" | |
| 7. | "When the Saints" | |
| 8. | "Kinshasa" |
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