RIP Uncle Lionel Batiste, Treme Brass Band bass drummer
By
Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune
"Uncle" Lionel Batiste, the Treme Brass Band’s longtime bass
drummer and a beloved, dapper character who reveled in charming women of
all ages on the dance floor, died early Sunday at Ochsner Baptist
Medical Center after a brief battle with cancer. He was 80.
Mr. Batiste was an iconic figure in the brass band community and the
larger world of New Orleans music. With his omnipresent sunglasses, a
wristwatch worn across his hand, and his kazoo, he literally moved to
the beat of his own drum.
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