Jon Batiste

I’m giving away a trip to meet me in Atlanta at my show with the Atlanta Pops Orchestra!

You and a guest could be joining me in Georgia with round trip travel, a 2-night hotel stay, guest list tickets + VIP passes for my show with the Atlanta Pops Orchestra at Synovus Bank Amphitheater on April 25, the chance to meet me, take a photo together and more.

Donate now to support Son of a Saint and help me provide transformative support for fatherless boys in my hometown of New Orleans for your chance to win.

Donate to win at: fandiem.com/jonbatiste

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Jon Batiste

Wow, such a massive honor to win best Americana album for BIG MONEY! I’ll be processing this one for a while and will be forever grateful for this profoundly life changing moment. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees for all the music you put out into the world. Grateful to the Americana community for embracing this album and for everyone who has helped uplift this album.

Real musicians and real people playing in the same room together is one of the most important traditions in humanity and must be protected in the age of AI.

Last year was all about playing music in conversation with lineage and tradition. I made a classical blues album (Beethoven Blues) a few months prior to this record. Crafting uplifting 21st century roots music tunes that address everything from love to environmental impacts and big money was not a journey I thought I’d be on but was so glad we arrived here.

Thanks to Dion, Nick, Russ, Kaleb, Mike, Steve, Autumn, Kizzo and all the entire team of collaborators who made this possible. And always special thanks to Suleika for making everything better.

To Yah be the glory as His light shines through me 🙏🏾

2 months ago | [YT] | 234

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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5 months ago | [YT] | 1,011

Jon Batiste

Making music and creating sounds with Josh Harmon. We had way too much fun! Check it out!

8 months ago | [YT] | 98

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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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8 months ago | [YT] | 225

Jon Batiste

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!

8 months ago | [YT] | 442

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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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Jon Batiste

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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9 months ago | [YT] | 635

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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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