Bobby Battle

Bobby Battle ( born January 8, 1944 in Detroit ) is an American jazz drummer who occasionally plays saxophone.

Life and work

Battle moved in 1968 to New York City, where he soon worked with Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Pharoah Sanders, and from 1972 studied at New York University until 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, released in 1990 in Maple Shade Records, on which Battlefield quartet line-up with David Murray, Larry Willis and Santi Debriano played.

Disco Graphical 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)

Lexical entry

  • Gary W. Kennedy Grove Jazz.
Mapleshade Records David Murray (saxophonist) Black Saint/Soul Note Discogs Integrated Authority File
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