Jon Batiste
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
Jon Batiste is an overachiever. Batiste is the bandleader on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and an Oscar-winning composer for the Pixar animated movie, Soul. He also received the highest number of Grammy nominations this year, with eleven, including Album of the Year for his most recent release, We Are.
On today’s episode, Bruce Headlam talks to Jon Batiste about what it was like coming up as a young musician in legendary New Orleans bar rooms. Batiste also reminisces about setting up a piano in the midst of Brooklyn protests after George Floyd’s murder. And he explains what it meant to have Obama call him personally after hearing his new album.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all it's Justin Richmond. |
| 0:13.0 | Today on the show we're talking to John Batiste, someone who I absolutely love for bringing |
| 0:18.4 | jazz back to late night. |
| 0:20.8 | From the days of Doc's 7th sin on Carson to Branford, Marcellis on Leno, late night was |
| 0:25.7 | one of the last places keeping jazz alive in households across the country. |
| 0:31.3 | Of course it would be John Batiste to bring that tradition back. |
| 0:34.8 | Batiste is an over-achiever. |
| 0:36.8 | As a kid he was a state champion basketball player and a chess champion. |
| 0:41.3 | And then when he turned his attention to music at age 14 after picking up drums then switching |
| 0:45.3 | to piano, he started a band with fellow New Orleans musician Trombone Shorty. |
| 0:50.2 | And that still wasn't enough. |
| 0:52.2 | He had to then go to Juilliard. |
| 0:54.7 | Today Batiste is the band leader on the late show with Stephen Colbert and an Oscar-winning |
| 0:59.0 | composer for the Pixar animated movie Soul. |
| 1:02.3 | He also received the highest number of Grammy nominations this year with 11, including |
| 1:07.9 | album of the year for his most recent release We Are. |
| 1:11.6 | Let's listen to a bit of the song Cry From That Album which expertly blends a number |
| 1:16.2 | of genres. |
| 1:35.1 | John considers We Are His Best Work Yet. |
| 1:38.5 | As you can tell from that clip, it's an accessible mix of jazz, blues, soul and hip-hop. |
| 1:44.4 | Batiste talks with Bruce Hadlam today about what it was like coming up in legendary Nola |
| 1:48.7 | Barrooms. |
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