THE LAST TAXI DRIVER
Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged cabbie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms.
The Taxi is a forum of life stories, sometimes you tell yours at other times you listen, sometimes you discuss the stories with a few travelers, other times they all discuss.Also available on eBook for £3.99. Your traveling companions share the experience of the Last Taxi with you, yet each perception is different from the other’s. What was your world is now seen through the window as a dream that is passing, an obscure and blurred image. Once inside the taxi, you are going home, yet you understand that home is an endless journey. Yet you know that you MUST go in, otherwise you will be walking alone in a desolate place. You have but one chance to board, as its mission is immediate and urgent. Its routes are many and its destinations are unknown. “Each listen to The Last Taxi will create new emotions and visions, and after all, is that not the true language of music, the music of the soul- and the soul is only really in the moment of now, only the mind wanders.
When not performing music, Pat works as a rocket scientist at Draper Labs in Cambridge. He recorded and produced 4 CDs with an Italian vocalists since 2016 with 2 more ready for release in the near future, with additional recordings to be produced. His latest adventures have been in collaboration with the musical circles in Puglia, Italy, namely those of Gianna Montecalvo in Bari and Gianni Lenoci in Monopoli. His last 6 CDs - Mystic Nights, The Last Taxi, Beyond the Horizon, From Dream to Dream, Rylesonable,and Elements - have all had excellent reviews and have charted into the mid-teens on the CMJ jazz charts for numbers of weeks. He is fluid in both solo appearances as well as leading ensembles in both acoustic settings as well as electric. Though his focus as an artist is creative improvisation, he is skilled and experienced in any setting where jazz (no matter the style) or groove and R&B is needed. During the past decade he has enjoyed the friendship and mentorship of both Paul Bley and Marilyn Crispell.
In 1986, he returned to jazz, studying with Joanne Brackeen for a period of 6 years. During the 80’s, Pat studied the works of Scriabin under the renowned Serge Conus. One of his bands, which featured hometown friend Grover Mooney, opened the fabled 1369 Club in Cambridge in 1975. In 1973, he attended Berklee College of Music and soon after became a student of both Mme Chaloff and Charlie Banacos. By the time he was 18, he had received lessons from Stan Kenton and Gary Burton, had been mentored by Oscar Treadwell (Oska T), and had played with James Brown’s recording sidemen as well as members of the musical “Hair.” Pat Battstone began performing music professionally at the age of 14, playing in various rock, blues, and R&B bands in South Western Ohio. “One’s Destination is never a place, but a new way of looking at things” Listen a bit, soar a lot, and embrace the genius of Pat Battstone – he is airbourne! Here we find him recording in Boston but making us feel like he packed it off to Italy to do it the Euro way. Either creative improvisational music helps scientific work, or daring scientific research stimulates musical creativity - one way or another, Battstone is doing well in both spheres.īattstone might have started out under Kenton's wing but his fascination with experimental, left leaning stuff has taken over his oeuvre over the years. His latest group effort The Last Taxi: In Transit is a collaboration once again with his Italian cohorts and creative like-minded souls Gianna Montecalvo with Antonella Chionna who both appear through the courtesy of Dodicilune Records.īattstone, an experienced musician with a experimental direction with a very solid discography, is also a rocket scientist working at Draper Labs, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Rocket Scientist Pat Battstone is back with his latest in an ever-growing avant-garde catalog.
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