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In the early 1970s, Alvin Batiste, the cherished jazz clarinetist, composer and music educator who founded the Jazz Institute at Southern University, spearheaded the production of two albums that became

In the late 1970s, trumpeter Milt Ward brought a hand-picked band into a local studio and cut a cosmos jazz record he hoped would elevate his career. Over the ensuing decades, the album has become a cult classic and is finally getting a proper reissue.