Jennifer Batten

Jennifer Batten ( born November 29, 1957 in New York) is an American e- guitarist.

Biography

Jennifer Batten began playing guitar at the age of eight years. In 1979 she graduated from the Howard Roberts founded in 1977 by Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Hollywood, California, where she became friends with guitarist Steve Lynch, who was equally as Batten involved in the development of the then popular expectant Tappingtechnik. After graduating she played in several local bands and taught at GIT

Known to a wider audience, it was through her ​​involvement as lead guitarist of Michael Jackson, for which she was selected in 1987 from a casting 100 guitarists. Until Jackson's HIStory tour of 1997, she was an integral part of his live band and stage show. You excited not only because of its extravagant appearance of a stir, but also through its innovative guitar playing and perfecting, popularized by Edward Van Halen, playing technique of the so-called Tapping. She played as the solo for the song Beat it live on Jackson's concerts, even if the original Beat it solo the disk version was subsequently mixed together from several solos that Edward Van Halen had recorded in the studio. Also with this technique, she played the originally composed for orchestra Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky -Korsakov, which places high demands as a solo piece.

During her time with Michael Jackson in 1992, she took on her first solo album Above, Below And Beyond, which was produced by Michael Sembello. In 1995 she founded her own band, The Immigrants, and published with their 1995 album One Planet Under One Groove. The second solo album Momentum, which is more world music -oriented, followed in 1997. A year later it was recorded by Jeff Beck in his band and played on two of his albums ( Who Else! , And You had it coming ). Her third solo album Whatever was released in September 2007 in Japan.

Jennifer Batten has completed numerous live performances, participated on numerous other CDs, made ​​a guest appearance in Michael Jackson's movie Moonwalker and published several textbooks and videos, especially on the subject of tapping.

Discography

Guest appearances (selection)

Bibliography

  • The Transcribed Guitar Solos Of Peter Sprague. (1991, Woodshed Books)
  • Two Hand Rock for Guitar - Music, Tablature and Analysis. (1995, Hal Leonard ) ISBN 9780793527526
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