When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds. He'd participate in local classical piano competitions by day, then was “gigging in night haunts in the heart of New Orleans.” On Nov.
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The album was written through a process called “spontaneous composition,” which he views as a lost art in classical music. It’s extemporization; Batiste sits at the piano and interpolates Beethoven’s masterpieces to make them his own. Contrary to what many might think, Batiste said that Beethoven’s rhythms are African. “On a basic technical level, he’s doing the thing that African music ingenuity brought to the world, which is he’s playing in both a two meter and a three meter at once, almost all the time. He’s playing in two different time signatures at once, almost exclusively,” he said.
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