Popcast: Jon Batiste and ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Times music critics discuss Mr. Batiste’s role as bandleader on the show.

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0:00.0	Pick up your pain, plus the pain, express yourself and height.
0:05.0	Dance your dancing truths over your dream they will choose.
0:10.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your flash mob of musical administration.
0:13.8	I'm your host Ben Ratliff. Now, let's just tell.
0:24.0	Oh, yeah.
0:25.0	Oh, yeah.
0:28.0	Yeah, not call everybody.
0:30.0	The lips be on. And with us today is Nate Chinin, hey, Nate.
0:37.0	And with us today is Nate Chinin.
0:38.2	Hey Nate.
0:38.8	Yeah.
0:39.8	We're talking about John Batiste, the new musical director of Stephen Colbert's new late night talk
0:49.9	show who you profiled in the Times on Tuesday this week. Why don't you talk a little bit
0:57.3	about who John Batiste is and how he came to this point. A lot of people, I would guess, have no idea who
1:07.5	John Batiste is and where he comes from and why he's a man of importance.
1:13.6	Well, this has been a big week for the rollout of John Batiste as a public figure on a mass scale,
1:21.6	but he's been kicking around for a while he's he is in his late 20s I think
1:27.1	he's 28 and has been playing on stages before audiences at least since he was eight.
1:35.6	This is because he comes from a very famous
1:38.2	musical family in New Orleans, the Batiste family.
1:41.2	Harold, Alvin Batiste.
1:43.2	He started out as a drummer and was basically thrown on stage with the Batiste Brothers Band
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