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Katie Couric: ‘Late Show’ bandleader Jon Batiste: on ‘love riots,’ Colbert, and all that jazz






Katie Couric: 'Late Show' bandleader Jon Batiste: on 'love riots,' Colbert, and all that jazz


 

'Late Show' bandleader Jon Batiste: on 'love riots,' Colbert, and all that jazz

Jazz musician Jon Batiste has found his groove. At just 28, he’s performed in more than 40 countries, had a No. 1 album on the jazz charts and will be sharing the stage as bandleader with the new Late Show host Stephen Colbert starting September 8 on CBS. 

Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric met up with Batiste at the Blue Note, the legendary jazz club in Greenwich Village, New York, to play some tunes and chat about all that jazz.

NEW ORLEANS ROOTS

Colbert’s Bandleader Jon Batiste on his New Orleans roots

Jon Batiste, jazz musician and bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, spoke with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric about his musical lineage and his New Orleans roots.

Growing up in Kenner, La., a suburb of New Orleans, Batiste was surrounded by music. Coming from a long line of musicians, Batiste first sharpened his musical chops playing the conga drums in the family band, the Batiste Brothers Band, formed by his father and uncles. At 11 years old, he switched to piano and never looked back. By the time Batiste was 17, he had already released two albums and was on his way to Juilliard to study jazz and classical.

JAZZ 2.0

Jazz 2.0 with Jon Batiste

Jon Batiste, jazz musician and bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, talks to Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric about innovating jazz, improvisation and his mission to create social music.

Batiste and his band, Stay Human, have been credited with innovations to traditional jazz, blending standards with different styles and genres — be it R&B, rock, or pop, and taking their music to the streets with their so-called social music.

He describes social music as “music without any genre boundaries or borders. [It’s] about bringing people together who otherwise wouldn’t come together.” Stay Human has performed all over the world — from subway trains to ski slopes. 

‘THE LATE SHOW’ WITH STEPHEN COLBERT

Jon Batiste: Bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

New Orleans bred, Juilliard trained jazz musician Jon Batiste talks to Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric about his new role as bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and his chemistry with Colbert.

On September 8, Batiste will be taking up the mantle of bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, supported by his band, Stay HumanBatiste and Colbert first met in 2014 on Colbert’s Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report

“I felt an energy,” recalled Batiste.  “And then he did, too. And we kept speaking over time. And eventually it became a conversation about the show, the next show.” Colbert has said that he “can’t wait to play off [Batiste’s] energy.”

 

 
 

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