About a third of the way into his new documentary, Beethoven’s Nine: Ode to Humanity, director Larry Weinstein (Ravel’s Brain, Making Overtures) settles in front of the camera, and introduces ...

Batiste takes a phrase of Beethoven, and answers and contrasts it with a minor, bluesy jazz phrase of his own' So it is a paradox that his written compositions are seen by many as immutable holy writ, ...