Jon Batiste and Alicia Graf Mack Want the Truth

Over the past decade, Jon Batiste, the virtuoso musician, composer, and Juilliard graduate who since 2015 has served as bandleader on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, has marched to the beat of his own improvisational drummer. Born into a legendary New Orleans musical family, Batiste grew up steeped in jazz, blues, gospel, and R&B, but his tastes run wide. His most recent album, 2021’s We Are, explores a range of influences and genres while also tapping into the tenor and tension of a historical moment when culture and identity, race and reckoning, and the personal and political have all… Read Full Article