Jon Batiste on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" (Photo : Youtube Still Photo)
The multi-instrumentalist and singer Jon Batiste-from the family of musicians in Louisiana-debuts as the bandleader of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" band on Sept. 8, Tuesday, on CBS.
According to an ArtsBeat Blog, right after Colbert's interview with Batiste, the first stated in the late show that he thinks that Mr. Baptiste is he "could actually spend a few years onstage with". Even though Batiste led the audience and him outside the studio, performing the "love riot," he said that it did not hurt.
In 2011, as Batiste was finishing the master's degree in jazz studies at Juilliard, he released by himself a live EP called "My N.Y.," which was entirely recorded on moving subway cars. A parade-strut version was the opening of "You Are My Sunshine," which quickly turned into Lady Gaga's song "Just Dance".
In the aforementioned recorded video, it can be seen that he is like a pied piper leading a throng of people on the street. He truly can strongly connect with an audience that many would join and move in close to watch him perform. Hence, his preferred term for his own spontaneous street jam like a flash mob style, his so-called "love riot," is always an amazing performance that make people enjoy and fall in love with music over and over again.
So in 2013, before his appointment with the "Late Show," Mr. Batiste was endorsed enthusiastically in GQ by Questlove. Therefore, any rivalry in the air between his two bands Stay Human and the Roots will perhaps become friendly.
