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Jon Batiste Is In A Class Of His Own
The Oscar-winning Jazz artist simply defines his musicianship as social music and the visuals for his new single Freedom solidify that stance.
On the night of this year’s Academy Awards, Jon Batiste stood tall at the podium. Wearing a dark blue tuxedo with a pinned floral embellishment, the jazz singer warmly scanned the room. “God gave us 12 notes. It’s the same 12 notes that Duke Ellington had, that Bach had, Nina Simone…”, he recited during the captivating acceptance speech. Alongside fellow composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Batiste received an Oscar for the musical compositions featured in Disney-Pixar’s
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Batiste at his home in New Jersey, playing one of his hand-painted melodicas.
Jon Batiste’s professors at the Juilliard School in New York were so disturbed by it that they called in a psychotherapist. One of his hometown mentors, the jazz icon Wynton Marsalis, was likewise appalled. “Get that thing off the stage,” he’d gripe. Even workaday subway riders, herding past Batiste’s underground performances, might’ve thought something was off-kilter, unusual, all that incredible virtuosity funneled into…what’s that thing even
called, anyway?
“Melody horn, melodion, harmonichord, mouth piano…” Batiste is inventorying the names for the peculiar instrument in his hands, the source of all that former tension but also, more important, almost lifelong delight. “If you look online,” he says, “there’s even more.” Indeed there are: pianica, melodihorn, triola, hooter, piano horn, and the rather sultry-sounding orgamonica. But most players, Batiste included, ca
The National Jazz Museum In Harlem Celebrates The Roots & Routes Of Jazz At Annual Fundraising Gala
The gala will be hosted by award-winning celebrity bandleaders Christian McBride and Jon Batiste.by BWW News Desk
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem celebrates the rich history and culture of the jazz in Harlem experience at its annual virtual fundraising gala, The Roots & Routes of Jazz, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at 6 p.m.
The gala will be hosted by award-winning celebrity bandleaders Christian McBride and Jon Batiste with special performances by AMP Big Band from the Philippines, Bradley Sibiya Quartet with special guest Chiedza Muchena from Zimbabwe, and Endea Owens and The Cookout from Harlem.