Jonathan Michael Batiste is an American musician, bandleader, and television personality. Batiste regularly tours with his band Stay Human, and appears with them nightly as bandleader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He is a member of a New Orleans musical dynasty that includes Lionel Batiste of the Treme Brass Band, Milton Batiste, composer and arranger Harold Battiste, and Russell Batiste Jr.
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Jonathan Michael Batiste is an American musician, bandleader, and television personality. Batiste regularly tours with his band Stay Human, and appears with them nightly as bandleader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He also serves as the Music Director of The Atlantic and the Creative Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. He is a member of a New Orleans musical dynasty that includes Lionel Batiste of the Treme Brass Band, Milton Batiste, composer and arranger Harold Battiste, and Russell Batiste Jr. His debut solo album Hollywood Africans was released by Verve Records in September 2018. His cover of \”St. James Infirmary Blues\” was nominated for a Grammy in 2019, in the category of Best American Roots Performance. He was cast in the HBO television series Treme, appearing in seasons 2, 3 and 4.
He composed and performed the Hammond B-3 organ music that was a part of the film score for Red Hook Summer. He has curated the Global Citizen Advocacy Concert with Tom Morello and the Louis Armstrong Wonderful World Festival in Queens, N. Y. He appears in the television documentary Duke 91 & 92: Back to Back and the short film Thynyn Choice in the film of the same name. In 2005, Batiste began performing with his Juilliard peers in New York with bassist Philhnist and drummer Joe Saylor. He later added Eddie Barbash on alto saxophone and Ibanda Ruha Rumbika on tuba. In 2011, he released the album MY N MY Y band, which draws from the belief that human interaction during a live musical performance can uplift humanity.
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