Harold Battiste is a sax player, a record maker, a jazz educator. His story, as told to John Sinclair, is an oral history of a life in New Orleans music.

An unhonored prophet in his home town for many years, saxophonist, composer, arranger, producer, recording executive, music educator and cultural activist Harold Battiste, Jr. is finally gaining acclaim as a director of the burgeoning jazz studies program at the University of New Orleans and as chief executive of A...