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Toure Show

Jon Batiste–I'm A Dreamer

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Jon Batiste is an extraordinary Juilliard-trained musician who grew up in a musical family from one of America’s greatest music towns, New Orleans. Yes he’s the musical director of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert but he’s a brilliant musician in his own right. He’s got a new album called We Are so we talk about music and how to make it. To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Way before John Batiste was on the late show with Stephen Colbert.

0:19.6

He was a monstrous jazz musician. He's got a new album out called We Are and I love just

0:27.0

talking to him about jazz. You know you worked on soul the movie that's on Disney Plus, Jamie Fox, Tina Fae. It's an extraordinary film. I watched it a bunch of times watching my kids

0:43.4

Washed it without my kids like the music the movie is just brilliant talk about working on that movie and what you tried to add to it musically. I just wanted to give the

0:57.6

world something that had magic and and gave the new the new listeners

1:05.3

of jazz and the sacred lineage something

1:07.7

that they could just bite their teeth into

1:09.7

and just it grabs a hold to them.

1:11.7

It's accessible I was even hearing different

1:16.0

chord structures when I first started putting it together like chords you know.

1:23.0

You know,

1:25.0

like if you think about

1:31.0

celestial, ethereal worlds beyond life, before life, after life,

1:39.1

I wanted all of the chords to feel like that. And I started thinking about music that had that vibe,

1:44.9

like John Coltrane,

1:46.8

or like, you know, Anita Baker.

1:54.0

And then the theme on,

2:00.0

on, on, on, born the plate from the film is

2:09.0

See Sweet love, that kind of same harmonic or like.

2:19.0

That kind of same harmonic or like. So that world, I just wanted to create that world throughout the whole film. And I knew that music was going to be such a character in the film

2:36.8

that once I found those chord structures and those harmonies that evoke that feeling.

2:43.3

Then I just started to write melodies

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