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Jon Batiste has earned a good deal of praise for his behind-the-scenes contribution to the new Pixar movie,
SOUL. Last fall, he spent his 33rd birthday playing an intimate, private concert with his band in the round while
Jazz Night in America captured the show. He kept it classy, donning a suede jacket and playing selections from his two latest Verve releases,
Chronology of A Dream and
Anatomy of Angels.
You probably know Jon Batiste as bandleader and musical director on
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But his credentials are deep as the roots of the Batiste family tree. He s the co-artistic director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and has been a collaborator with everyone from pop singer Tori Kelly to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He s graduate of both the New Orleans Center of the Creative Arts and the Juilliard School, and an alumni of both Wynton Marsalis and Roy Hargrove s bands.