The Evolution Of Jon Batiste, Music Consultant Of Pixar s Soul
2:19pm Jan 17, 2021 Jon Batiste performs an intimate set in New York City. Becky Harlan / WBGO
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
Christian McBride is a man of many titles.
All of this is to say that McBride, also the host of “Jazz Night in America” on National Public Radio, had several fronts from which to view the artistic, business and personal toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
“NJPAC, Jazz House Kids, Jazz Museum in Harlem, Newport Jazz Festival, every organization I’ve been involved with, everybody’s running,” McBride said. “It’s both a sprint and a marathon, so everybody’s running hard and fast trying to stay out there.”
So it’s gone across our region, as folks from every walk of life have worked tirelessly to simply survive and see the next day.
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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.
Upper Darby School District alum, Immanuel Wilkinsâ Omega has captured the #1 ranking for the Best Jazz Albums of 2020 by the New York Times. This debut record on the prestigious Blue Note Record label has been described by the New York Times as â⦠ten compositions that move with such grace, thereâs no time to feel overwhelmed by the surfeit of ideas packed into each one.â
Wilkins, 23, said that he wanted to craft something that spoke directly to the Black experience in America. With his own quartet of piano, bass, and drums, the alto saxophonist tries to capture the many emotions over the senseless loss of black lives in this country in compositions âFerguson â An American Traditionâ and âMary Turner â An American Tradition.â A soothing song, âThe Dreamer,â honors the life of Black author, teacher, and activist James Weldon Johnson. âWarriorsâ is an upbeat tune that Wilkins describes as being about friendsh