Jon Batiste’s Performs Selections from "Black Mozart" Album

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• BO

  @bourge66 · 3 months ago (edited)

  Our black ancestors shine through Jon Baptiste exquisitely 😊. Thank you Jon for making us so proud❤.

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• NA

  @nardabeauchamp2605 · 3 months ago

  1001 reasons to love and respect this musical genius and compassionate human being. ❤️ He is pure joy!

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• LO

  @lorit4320 · 1 month ago

  I am a pianist and the level of concentration and focus it takes to play like he does is extraordinary. I am in awe.

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• LI

  @LinGibson-j9o · 3 months ago (edited)

  I'm a book editor, and sometimes I need to get across to authors—particularly fiction authors—that what's "correct" on the page doesn't always serve to get your reader where you want them to go. Jon explained this brilliantly with Alvin Batiste's notion of the difference between "correct" and "right."

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• WE

  @wendybesett5748 · 3 months ago

  Here is a reason I love the internet!  Thank you, Jon, for following your passion.

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• PI

  @PIXIBOND · 2 months ago

  Your playing brings me to tears- I feel every note alive… tiny daggers of life energy falling into me like a defibrillator. Except my heart hasn’t stopped. The love of my life passed away unexpectedly.<br>My husband, Giles, was a trombone player and a lover of music. He knew about you long before you became Colbert’s music director, but I still remember when he saw you there. He almost whispered in pure delight, “Look who Colbert has as his music director…” He was so happy. So proud he could scream… but he was quiet strength. <br><br>I can literally feel every nuance and every note you touch. I always felt every note alive, but since Giles passed away, every note has become woven into something more.<br><br>Your notes have become the place where I live with Giles’s life again… where he’s still alive. That’s where I find myself every time you play.<br><br>It’s like a million tiny golden particles attaching themselves to every cell of my body, lifting me ever so slightly off the ground. Not enough to keep me from falling… only enough that when I do, the drop isn’t quite so hard. Dropping in pure mercy. It’s me being held in the tension between his life and death.<br><br>In those moments, I don’t just miss Giles, I feel him. It’s not the memory of him… it’s his life. I feel LIFE energy. <br><br>Somehow… every time you play, I feel it- vacillating between the life and death of creation, in the blue of the flame.

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• CH

  @cherylowens5188 · 3 months ago

  Jon Batiste is an absolute genius!!! Jon please keep making New Orleans proud! My son attended St. Augustine High School with Jon Batiste!!!❤

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• IL

  @ILM2219 · 3 months ago

  During my time, as a pianist I had a hard time in my composing with the left hand. The frustration brought me to stop all together. I love his gentleness on the keyboard... nice touch!

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• AL

  @allengrigg7553 · 2 months ago

  Jon Batiste is the embodiment of pure creativity while simultaneously paying homage to all that guided his talent beginning with Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and the masters of American Jazz. He correctly stated that music is the universal language of our species.

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• CL

  @clubladayearround9289 · 3 months ago

  I felt like I was listening in on a personal conversation between two souls of the same tribe

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• MO

  @motabor4462 · 3 months ago

  100% extraordinary artistry, both in the musicality on the instrument, as well as in the musicality and the flow of the conversation. Such a gift, they both are!

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• LA

  @LadyFurlow-q3b · 8 days ago

  &quot;To God be the Glory for this outstanding talent&quot;

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