Jon Batiste: So Much More Than Stephen Colbert’s Music Director
Louisiana native Jonathan Batiste is a Grammy-nominated musician, TV personality, and bandleader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Though just 33 years old,he has released 11 albums and Eps (including his just-released “Anatomy of Angels: Live at the Village Vanguard”) and has recorded and performed with such artists as Stevie Wonder, Prince, Willie Nelson, Ed Sheeran and Mavis Staples. He is the Music Director of The Atlantic and Artistic Co-Director and Creative Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.