Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste is a seven-time Grammy and Academy Award–winning singer, songwriter, and
composer. His ninth studio album, Big Money, will be released August 22 via Verve/Interscope,
featuring collaborations with No I.D., Randy Newman, and Andra Day, and will be supported by
a national headlining run, The Big Money Tour: Jon Batiste Plays America, kicking off August 27
with more than 30 stops nationwide. Big Money caps a landmark year that included Batiste’s
Super Bowl performance and the chart-topping success of his album Beethoven Blues, which
spent nine weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Classical Albums chart. His 2023 album, World Music
Radio, earned five Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year.
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Jon Batiste
Three Grammy nominations in Americana and Roots categories for BIG MONEY means so much to us. I am proud to be a torch bearer for our musical traditions and carry forward the many legacies the culture creators left us.
Photographer: Tyrell Hampton
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Making music and creating sounds with Josh Harmon. We had way too much fun! Check it out!
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Only a few copies left of the hot pink BIG MONEY vinyl with the signed art card! Have you grabbed your colored vinyl yet!? What songs from the album have impacted you the most so far?
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Kicking off The BIG MONEY Tour today with a BIG Announcement 📣 📣📣I will be joined by my incredible friends, Andra Day and Diana Silvers!!!! 🫶 We’re pumped to see you on the road! Tickets are limited, check the link in bio!
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lean on my love. (ft @andradaymusic)
Music film out now. BIG MONEY Album out now.
You been taking the high road solo for way too long
Sunday to Sunday come back to where you belong
This is how I know
It's time to let it go
You can LEAN ON MY LOVE
🎥 Director: David Henry Gerson @davidhgerson
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We captured some of the creative process this time around. Take an inside look at the making of BIG MONEY.
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Now my room has got two windows
But the sun never comes shinin’ through
You know it’s always dark
It’s dreary since I broke it off with you
I live on a lonely avenue
A lonely avenue
Girl wouldn’t say I do
So sad and blue
I could cry, I could cry, I could cry
I could die, I could die, I could die
I live on a lonely avenue
Lonely avenue
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LONELY AVENUE my new song and short film is out now, featuring the icon Randy Newman. He is a master poet, piano wizard, and sharp observer of the irony and absurdity of all human things. As a late teen when I charted my musical development towards songwriting, Randy, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers and Mr Rogers were some of my key inspirations. It was appropriate that we first met each other over a decade ago in DC lobbying for songwriters rights on the hill. We've both had the pleasure of scoring Pixar films ( maybe we'd score one together one day?) and we had crossed paths a few times since Washington. After not seeing him for some years, I decided to cold call him. I'm the king of the cold call btw-we might not speak for like seven years and then I'll call you out the blue everyday for a season. We bonded over the last year or more which eventually led to LONELY AVENUE, captured at his house around the piano. One take no rehearsal, in the tradition of blues storytelling.
We share many musical connections, but the most significant is the mutuality of our indebtedness to Ray Charles. Ray was an outlier who hasn't gotten mentioned enough in this recent era of reclaiming country music. He was also one of the pioneers of translating
gospel, blues and black American roots music to the world without diluting it in any way at all!
What's deep is both Ray and Randy existing in the culture the way they do proves the it's all Americana, from the same source. When writing the BIG MONEY album I wanted to build on the tradition of this kind of music making in popular culture. Our cultural inheritance is important in a times like this when we seem to have forgotten who we are.
We are in a loneliness epidemic. Loneliness is a symptom of lacking identity and having no place in the world. May LONELY AVENUE be a force of good in your life. Amen. Courtesy of Ray, Randy and Me. Drop a 🤟 if you're with me
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This composition from the Beethoven Blues album is a mediation on light and what it symbolizes. The transitions of life and both the uncertainty and beauty in these moments of stillness and silent introspection. This release celebrates the end of the Maestro Tour and the new beginning of all that's to come
🌹🌹🌹🫵🏾🫵🏾🤍🤍🤍🤍 Watch 'Dusklight Movement' and celebrate the $hift into a beautiful world with me
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The album is finally yours!! Music from the vessel that was Ludwig, filtered through my soul. May it be the soundtrack to your life in all seasons—an inspiration, a friend, a comfort and more. BEETHOVEN BLUES is out now everywhere ! 🕊️🖤 jon-batiste.lnk.to/BeethovenBlues
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