 and Lionel Batiste (a jazz drummer and singer), Batiste has worked with Stevie Wonder and Prince, and is best known as the bandleader on Stephen Colbert's talk show and for co-composing the score for Pixar's Soul , which secured him the Oscar. Yet he is also a fabulous singer, songwriter and pianist who won album of the year at the Grammys in 2022 for the virtuosic We Are . World Music Radio , the follow-up, isn't quite as good but){kind=link}
★★★★☆For a man with an Oscar, a Golden Globe and five Grammys on his mantelpiece, Jon Batiste has a weirdly low profile on this side of the Atlantic. Part of a New Orleans musical dynasty that includes Harold Battiste (an arranger for Sam Cooke) and Lionel Batiste (a jazz drummer and singer), Batiste has worked with Stevie Wonder and Prince, and is best known as the bandleader on Stephen Colbert’s talk show and for co-composing the score for Pixar’s Soul, which secured him the Oscar. Yet he is also a fabulous singer, songwriter and pianist who won album of the year at the Grammys in 2022 for the virtuosic We Are.
World Music Radio, the follow-up, isn’t quite as good but
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