As many of his former collaborators have attested, Prince wasn’t always the most straightforward person to work with. Or, indeed, to communicate with.
Take the experience of Jazz polymath Jon Batiste, who says that he encountered Prince when he was just a young man studying in New York at the prestigious Juilliard School. “Prince shows up to one of my shows, and decides after the show that he wants the band to be one of the bands that plays with him on tour,” he told BBC Radio 2’s Scott Mills.
