Bill Haley enjoyed his first top-10 single; Elvis played his last gig before a two-year layoff for the army; the Velvet ...

On “Big Money,” Super Bowl-sized singer Jon Batiste opts for a surprisingly intimate sound. The just over 32-minute, nine-song set will be released Friday, and it’s not nearly as loud as the New ...

As a teenage musician, Jon Batiste used to call himself “a new-age blues artist.” Now, many genre-jumps later, he’s taking a deeply enjoyable left turn towards roots music on his seventh studio album, ...

Jon Batiste’s music mirrors connection, intimacy. His songs, accompanied often by his Stay Human ensemble, are so fundamental and informed by deep jazz, Afro-pop, R&B, and New Orleans roots that he is ...

There was, simply put, no way Jon Batiste was not going to be a musician. Born in Louisiana to one of New Orleans’ most prolific music families -- father Michael Batiste played bass for Jackie Wilson ...

The New Orleans jazz great tells Covering Climate Now, “When you make a song, you want to inspire people, but you also want to let them know what they can do.” Jon Batiste. Twenty years after ...

For everything that he can play and sing, American singer-songwriter Jon Batiste chose to play `Bambai Meri Jaan` as a clear tribute to Mumbai through one of its most iconic songs mid-way through his ...

Jon Batiste gave a moving tribute to late Latin music icon Eddie Palmieri — who died two weeks ago at the age of 88 of an extended illness — during his concert at Central Park’s SummerStage. The ...

The Dr. Phillips Center turns 10 this year and the ongoing celebrations of a decade of arts excellence cap off with a gift to us: a command performance from Grammy- and Oscar-winning musician Jon ...

You might have heard that Jon Batiste, the former bandleader on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” has collected a bunch of Grammys and an Oscar. You probably didn’t know that he’s become a ...

On “Big Money,” Super Bowl-sized singer Jon Batiste opts for a surprisingly intimate sound. The just over 32-minute, nine-song set will be released Friday, and it’s not nearly as loud as the New ...