Bobby Battle

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Bobby Battle (* 8. January 1944 in Detroit ) is an American jazz - drummer who occasionally saxophone playing.

Live and act

Battle moved to New York City in 1968 , where he soon worked with Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Pharoah Sanders and studied at New York University from 1972 to 1975 . In the late 1970s he played with Don Pullen and Sam Rivers ; in the 1980s and 1990s often with Arthur Blythe , also with Kenny Dorham , Sonny Stitt and Sonny Fortune . With Jimmy Ponder he had a duo in 1987. His only album under his own name, The Offering , was released in 1990 by Mapleshade Records , on which Battle played in a quartet line-up with David Murray , Larry Willis and Santi Debriano .

Discographic notes

With Arthur Blythe

  • Illusions (Columbia, 1980)
  • Blythe Spirit (Columbia, 1981)
  • Elaborations (Columbia, 1982)
  • Light Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk (Columbia, 1983)

With Don Pullen

  • Capricorn Rising ( Black Saint , 1975)
  • Tomorrow's Promises (Atlantic, 1977)
  • Warriors (Black Saint, 1979)
  • The Sixth Sense (Black Saint, 1985)

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personal data
SURNAME Battle, Bobby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit