To follow, he now presents three more volumes: Black Mozart, Vol 2, and Monk Mediations and Monk Movements, comprising Volumes 3 and 4. Batiste is by no means the first jazz pianist or jazz artist to draw the linkage between classical composers and Thelonious Monk. Batiste penned three originals on Black Mozart and several on the two Monk albums. So, as Batiste draws comparisons to Black American music with Beethoven and Mozart, he thinks of the next major piano innovator, Thelonious Monk. On Batiste’s own compostions, he clearly internalizes the Monk style, as you’d expect, consummating all facets and multiple Monk melodies on “Monk Movement.