Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s MLK tribute concert offers message of ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now’ What to Stream: ‘The Smashing Machine,’ Louis Tomlinson, ‘The Beauty’ and Bruce Springsteen biopic ...

Formally trained in jazz, he’s written film soundtracks, dabbled in R&B, soul and pop, been bandleader for Stephen Colbert and has both numerous Grammys and an Oscar under his belt. Now, with the nine ...

Randy Newman hadn’t been doing much singing when he got a cold call from Jon Batiste. The musicians had met a decade earlier and spent some time together, but time went by, and they drifted apart. Now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Batiste, seen here onstage during a concert at Teatro dal Verme on Nov. 7, in Milan, Italy, performed at Davies Symphony Hall ...

To Jon Batiste, music is about much more than playing the right notes, releasing hit records and winning awards — although he does all of that, with regularity. “It’s more than entertainment,” the ...

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 ...

The 18th edition of the Seoul Jazz Festival will take place at Olympic Park in southern Seoul from May 22 to 24, with a ...

In an era of debased and divisive politics, Jon Batiste is putting the pop back into populism. The New Orleans pianist, vocalist and melodica maestro met the San Francisco Symphony on its home turf at ...

The musician opens up to PEOPLE about his latest album 'Big Money' Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...