Edgar Bateman

Edgar Bateman Jr. (* 1929 in St. Louis , Missouri ; † 18th May 2010 in Philadelphia ) was an American jazz - drummer .

Bateman grew up in a musical environment in St. Louis; his aunt played the piano, her husband was a jazz trumpeter. His sister, who played in a drum corps, taught him to play the drums and gave him his first lessons. He began parade as a teenager and was a member of a high school band in St. Louis ; a school friend was Oliver Nelson . The swing drummer Gene Krupa is one of his early influences , later he orientated himself towards drummers like Max Roach and Art Blakey . He then had lessons in drumming and composition with Bernie Morgan. In the early 1960s he played in Ken McIntyre's band and participated in his sessions for United Artists , he also worked for Walt Dickerson , Eric Dolphy , John Handy and Charles Tolliver's band with Booker Ervin . In the Jazz Loft Project documented by W. Eugene Smith he was involved in sessions with Roland Kirk , Jay Cameron , Paul Bley and Roland Alexander around 1964. He later played mainly in the Philadelphia jazz scene and was involved in recordings by Bobby Zankel ( Many in Body, One in Mind ), Walt Dickerson ( Serendipity , 1976) and Orrin Evans ( Blessed Ones , 2001). In 2005 he performed with Michael Marcus in New York's Cornelia Street Cafe .

Discographic notes

• Walt Dickerson - A Sense of Direction (New Jazz-OJC, 1961)
• John Handy - Jazz (Roulette, 1962)
• Eric Dolphy - Live at Gaslight Inn (Ingo, 1962)
• Ken McIntyre - Way, Way Out (United Artists, 1963)
• Walt Dickerson - Unity (Audio Fidelity- Chiaroscuro , 1964)

Web links

• Portrait at All About Jazz (2005)
• Obituary at Lucky Old soul
• Obituary at Jazz Loft Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bobby Zankel album portrait at CIMP
2. ↑ Note in Gothamjazz ( Memento of 25 May 2006 at the Internet Archive )