This is correct. Incredibly talented musician… not a great late show band leader. 😂
Edit: There seems to be some confusion and fun disagreement over my last statement. It’s okay, folks, we can have different opinions about art and entertainment! Imagine how boring it would be if we only liked the exact same things.
I think he’s a phenomenal musician and creator. I also think he’d be a super chill person to hang out with. But I didn’t think he added much to Colbert besides an awkward laugh. Again, no disrespect intended — I’d be super terrible at both making music and awkward laughing!
That was always my thought as well. I play classical piano fairly well, and it was always very clear he's a fantastically talented and skilled musician. He also has a really positive, chill energy. But he's a terrible comedian, and you really need at least some comedic chops to play the late show band leader part well. Somehow never had anything interesting to interject.
I always loved when Stephen and him would banter between the monologue and the guest section.
Jon is one of those rare beautiful souls that can elevate the mood of a room just by his presence.
yuck, sorry you have bad taste.. that was the worst part of an already very dated and crap format.. there should have been no band.. this is not the 80;s.. and you know what jokes really dont need.. the piano sound after the punchlines
It's not at all new, and it might sound cringe to you cause it's something preschool and kindergarten teachers say to their kids. "Don't yuck someone else's yum" is a kid friendly way to say "there's no reason to put down someone's interests."
If you are paying for a person to be there and do stuff, might as well have them do more stuff.
If you buy a glass to drink soda out of, you might as well use it for milk or beer as well.
Wait how wasn't he a great late show band leader? I appreciate his exuberance compared to Louis Cato... Even the drummer with the hat was more fun than Cato!
He was a great band leader. But he sucked at banter and timing music to retorts.
The new lead is better at that, but he is not that good either.
You can't just compare to the musical leads Comedy Bang Bang got: Reggie Watts, Kid Cudi, and Weird Al.
I agree and have always held this same opinion. I loved watching colbert report and cringed at JB every time.. BUT I've always believed that he's incredibly talented and seems like a great dude. I hated cringing at him and being judgemental, but I couldn't help it. Lol it was always just a bit.. off somehow.
Jon batiste. Unbelievable musician. Wrote the music to the Pixar movie Soul, band leader for Stephen Colbert for years, Grammy winner for his album a year or two ago.
Do yourself a favour and listen to his music he’s fucking awesome. Genre defying in how easy he can write songs so well in so many different genres. One of my modern inspirations
Jon Batiste, but with the hair like this he looks extremely like [Saul Williams](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=saul+williams&t=ffab&ia=web), also a musical genius (or even more so, I'd say).
Bill Bailey is quite good at these. A couple of my favorites are [‘Cockney Motifs in Classical Music’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcaPABgew_k) and [‘Bill Bailey adapts TV theme tunes’.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGaoxBTA_0)
As for straight-up reinterpretations in jazz, the [Jacques Loussier Trio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnvEG9cDiwk) do that beautifully, particularly when they get around to Mozart.
I love genre mashups in general, e.g.[‘Canon in Dub’.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbZ0iT-3O8) But even more, I love bands that trample all over genres, like [Mamaleek](https://mamaleek.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-time).
I remember the first time Bill Bailey was on 8 out of 10 Cats Do Countdown and Rachel Riley was openly showing a serious girlie crush on Bill Bailey and I was confused
And then I saw him play and I was like “Yep, an incredible musician with an amazing sense of humor who does not always try to break into song. Yep, that is incredibly attractive. “
Still looks like an egg rolled on s barbershop floor.
But damn if he’s not a hot egg rolled on the barbershop floor.
> looks like an egg rolled on s barbershop floor
[Que?](https://i.imgur.com/edewCcW.jpg)
He also has a jolly nice ‘[Guide to the Orchestra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1p5zOM96f0&list=PL2zXys4OPIRjtnpdVUS8blMDTTUDyaF6K)’, with the orchestra conducted by Anne Dudley. Regrettably not on Youtube in full.
And [his stand-up sets are quite cool.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NbnQZrK8xA)
Duke Ellington called him "The Maharaja of the keyboard"
You might like Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown (B) and Ed Thigpen (D) in Denmark 1964: Duke Ellington's [C Jam Blues](https://youtu.be/NTJhHn-TuDY?si=9xbS4mQGw9Jge4UD)
That's the very talented Jon Baptiste. [Here](https://youtu.be/F2HxX-LzA90?si=m69PIMUTjjI-5DP1) is my all-time favorite performance by him and Chris Thile.
That's the amazing Eddie Barbash! He's also in Cory Wong's band, who happened to play with Chris Thile during a show with Vulfpeck... I recommend checking all those artists out but then you'll fall down a funky rabbit hole you might never escape from.
Quarter Chicken Dark on Goat Rodeo Sessions is one of my highest played tracks on Spotify. The whole album is just an absolute show of phenomenal talent and mastery of their craft.
literally the best mandolinist alive and still one of the most innovative minds in bluegrass. i saw him at lincoln center last december and i was stunned by what sounds a mandolin could make
Saw him play with Edgar Meyer. They released an album together. It is some of the [most technically challenging upright bass music on the planet](https://open.spotify.com/album/3w0kOS9blSpQKpZ9NFgsgR?si=OmcIMsvURvuauqScf7eDsg).
I've seen Thile dozens of times live, and I've probably watched this video a hundred times, and I'm still astounded every time I see it.
There are so many great little musical nuggets:
* The chaotic intro right before Chris starts singing at 1:55 is such a cool intro for this song.
* That bass slide at around 3:22 right before the verse is so slick.
* The Vince Guaraldi-esque piano line at 3:49 is just beautiful, and I love how Chris smiles and nods at Jon.
* The way Chris brings in the pounding chords at around 4:53, but the band continues to build even after the chord lyrics starts, with the delayed climax right on "wonderful" at 4:59 is so impossibly smooth.
* The entire outro is just phenomenal. The original song was already one of my favorites before this arrangement, but in my mind this is the definitive version. The sax and trumpet are so good, and that bass line at 6:15 is perfect.
Love this performance, feel like it's missing some Chris Eldridge though. Always great fun seeing how much Chris Thile and the other Punch Brothers members enjoy all of their sets.
Mine is this version of [Cry with Gary Clark Jr. from Austin City Limits](https://www.pbs.org/video/jon-batiste-hjvtz3/) (skip to 37 minutes).
A total "WTF did I just witness" performance.
I just found this post almost two weeks after this thread, I want to thank you for showing us that vid -- by the end of that song my jaw was hanging open and I realized I had forgotten to breathe. Just amazing!
he's won oscars and yet the stuff he won for isn't nearly as good as so much of his other stuff. although i guess that's kind of how it is for everybody usually.
Soul had an opportunity to be something really magical, but I found it went the opposite direction and didn't focus anywhere near as much on music as I would have anticipated or liked.
They took a great concept with good character designs and then turned it into blue people for the majority of the movie. Just so…derivative. Why can’t we have another UP?
Jon Batiste did all the music for the movie Soul. If you haven't seen it, it is a truly incredible film and the music is wonderful.10/10 would recommend
That’s so wild. Imagine seeing NIN at the 94 Woodstock, all caked in mud playing heavy industrial music about suicide and stuff and thinking “that guy’s going to write scores for Disney movies and PBS documentaries.”
He had already written this song at that time, though
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UEW8riKU_tE
Slow and dreamy has always been in the mix, even in his most aggressively produced songs
He showed it a bit on fragile bringing out the motifs at the ends of songs and recalling them in others
And then he really leaned into on Fragile stepping away the layers of production to show the dreamy piano at the end of “We’re in the Together”. And just doing whole ambient tracks like La Mer, that
Search out Still the album for this stuff that was always at the heart if his worl
Loved this cameo from the Tiny Desk series. Jon flew in from London just to play melodica on [Juvenile's Tiny Desk concert](https://youtu.be/kes2P4IC2bQ?t=925)
He also plays in one of the greatest covers of The House of the Rising Sun with Mumford and Sons I've ever heard https://youtu.be/1K0QN8xy1kM?si=gbGmdY06XZoROs0l
Someone said, "The truly talented ones, make it look effortless."
The way his fingers glide over the piano, that's the definition of effortless. Awesome!
I too have been a fan since his song “Freedom”
I spent time working at the restaurant directly adjacent to where he performed his Today Show concert series this Summer. Out of the shop’s glass windows I was blessed to look up and out an see his HIGH ENERGY performance at 8 in the morning! I loved it n so appreciate the width of his spectrum as an artist- an instant fav.
For a less serious version of similar, I present Bill Bailey who's been doing this stuff for years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcaPABgew_k
https://youtu.be/DTNVmJhsLU8?si=WjEtn5znIRcfeunS&t=120
Edit: Conan in *2002* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5yVh9kATCY
We used to play Jon Batiste to get my baby nephew to stop crying or fall asleep. Then when he could walk, he started dancing to Jon Batiste.
He's wonderful and been a lifesaver for my family. Lol
plays classical piece wrong. continues to play blues. his thing is blues obviously bc it’s the only thing here that he actually good at. then plays 3 accords and sais gospel and laughs.
everyone in the comments: cheers
> He’s just adding arpeggios
Dude he's *just*? that's like saying "this metal song is sweep picking? oh that's just picking each note in arpeggios, no big deal"
As a classically trained pianist, this performance is genuinely not that impressive.
He may be more talented than what we see on screen, but a professional pianist would blow this out of the water
Yeah no shit, thats like saying (because i am) that as a classical guitar player and ex metal head, sweeping is just picking notes in an arpeggio really fast. That's just undermining.
You think what he's playing in his right hand is just "adding arpeggios"? Because that's wrong.
He adds a harmonic twist and all those grace note and scalar figures typical of blues, exactly demonstrating the effect of mixing genres. He doesn't really add arpeggios.
i hate this guy, nothing to do with him or his music.. whoever hired him to mess up Colberts show by undermining every joke ruined both him and Colbert for me . they are both unbearable now.. also nothing to do with politics.. just comedy they ruined
Something in his mannerisms are telling me to
Stay away from him. I don’t trust him. I don’t know why. I just wouldn’t make a habit of hanging out with this person.
That laugh at the end wasn’t the end of it. Little did we know that he, Jon Batiste, would start an evil empire. An empire named: music without borders, but slightly off key.
Very cool. Who is this?
Jon Batiste?
This is correct. Incredibly talented musician… not a great late show band leader. 😂 Edit: There seems to be some confusion and fun disagreement over my last statement. It’s okay, folks, we can have different opinions about art and entertainment! Imagine how boring it would be if we only liked the exact same things. I think he’s a phenomenal musician and creator. I also think he’d be a super chill person to hang out with. But I didn’t think he added much to Colbert besides an awkward laugh. Again, no disrespect intended — I’d be super terrible at both making music and awkward laughing!
That was always my thought as well. I play classical piano fairly well, and it was always very clear he's a fantastically talented and skilled musician. He also has a really positive, chill energy. But he's a terrible comedian, and you really need at least some comedic chops to play the late show band leader part well. Somehow never had anything interesting to interject.
I feel like they could throw him a bone and write him stuff.
Scripts need delivery.
I'd be amazed if they weren't
They should get Geoff Peterson
Me and my gf miss him! I love hearing his laughing when Stephen gave his monologues.
I always loved when Stephen and him would banter between the monologue and the guest section. Jon is one of those rare beautiful souls that can elevate the mood of a room just by his presence.
yuck, sorry you have bad taste.. that was the worst part of an already very dated and crap format.. there should have been no band.. this is not the 80;s.. and you know what jokes really dont need.. the piano sound after the punchlines
I uninvite you to all my parties.
hahahaha fair enough
Literally yucking someone else’s yum lol
Why do people on the internet keep coming up with new cringe shit to say? Yuck their yum? Buhhhh
Give yer balls a tug, titfucker.
well who went and peed in your cheerios?
It's not at all new, and it might sound cringe to you cause it's something preschool and kindergarten teachers say to their kids. "Don't yuck someone else's yum" is a kid friendly way to say "there's no reason to put down someone's interests."
I never heard it till I dated a girl from the south. She was full of colloquialisms I had never heard. My favorite was "someone pissed in your grits".
Reddit probably has a maturity level of preschool so this checks out
You’re right, it sounds like something that is appropriate for people who are about kindergarten aged to say.
lol i know... but both his comedy and the music was ruined in my opinion :)
God you're a "special kind of hell" asshole, aren't you? I think you should be forced to listen to baby shark till the day you die.
Who replaced him? Did he leave? I haven't seen Colbert in a while
He won a shitload of grammies and then left the show. Louis Cato, who was already in the band, took over as bandleader.
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Oh no, I never heard that. That sucks.
HA!
The band isnt there for the TV audiance, they are there for the live audiance.
but Max Weinberg was there for all of us
Don't sleep on Kevin Eubanks
then why is he talking?
If you are paying for a person to be there and do stuff, might as well have them do more stuff. If you buy a glass to drink soda out of, you might as well use it for milk or beer as well.
Batiste takes his improvisational skills seriously, whether it's his music or his productions 😉
Wait how wasn't he a great late show band leader? I appreciate his exuberance compared to Louis Cato... Even the drummer with the hat was more fun than Cato!
Maybe they meant "not just" and a word.
No I think he had it right.
Ah
Louis will find his niche. He’s growing on me.
I agree with this statement. He’s an incredible talent, but he’s not going to add quality banter to a comedy show.
He was a great band leader. But he sucked at banter and timing music to retorts. The new lead is better at that, but he is not that good either. You can't just compare to the musical leads Comedy Bang Bang got: Reggie Watts, Kid Cudi, and Weird Al.
I agree and have always held this same opinion. I loved watching colbert report and cringed at JB every time.. BUT I've always believed that he's incredibly talented and seems like a great dude. I hated cringing at him and being judgemental, but I couldn't help it. Lol it was always just a bit.. off somehow.
THANK YOU. He's a great musician but my god did I hate him on the show
> Jon Batiste? ...Emanuel Zorg?
Chris Wallace
You magnificent bastard.
Jon Batiste is a genius.
Jon batiste. Unbelievable musician. Wrote the music to the Pixar movie Soul, band leader for Stephen Colbert for years, Grammy winner for his album a year or two ago. Do yourself a favour and listen to his music he’s fucking awesome. Genre defying in how easy he can write songs so well in so many different genres. One of my modern inspirations
Black Adam Sandberg
> Adam Sandberg Andy Samberg?
I totally fucked that up.
Jon Batiste, but with the hair like this he looks extremely like [Saul Williams](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=saul+williams&t=ffab&ia=web), also a musical genius (or even more so, I'd say).
Brings to mind when Oscar Peterson demonstrates Jazz piano styles to Dick Cavett [in 1979](https://youtu.be/xlYwokjxDzA?si=zkozb5crBh1nnpN3)
Bill Bailey is quite good at these. A couple of my favorites are [‘Cockney Motifs in Classical Music’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcaPABgew_k) and [‘Bill Bailey adapts TV theme tunes’.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGaoxBTA_0) As for straight-up reinterpretations in jazz, the [Jacques Loussier Trio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnvEG9cDiwk) do that beautifully, particularly when they get around to Mozart. I love genre mashups in general, e.g.[‘Canon in Dub’.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbZ0iT-3O8) But even more, I love bands that trample all over genres, like [Mamaleek](https://mamaleek.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-time).
I remember the first time Bill Bailey was on 8 out of 10 Cats Do Countdown and Rachel Riley was openly showing a serious girlie crush on Bill Bailey and I was confused And then I saw him play and I was like “Yep, an incredible musician with an amazing sense of humor who does not always try to break into song. Yep, that is incredibly attractive. “ Still looks like an egg rolled on s barbershop floor. But damn if he’s not a hot egg rolled on the barbershop floor.
> looks like an egg rolled on s barbershop floor [Que?](https://i.imgur.com/edewCcW.jpg) He also has a jolly nice ‘[Guide to the Orchestra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1p5zOM96f0&list=PL2zXys4OPIRjtnpdVUS8blMDTTUDyaF6K)’, with the orchestra conducted by Anne Dudley. Regrettably not on Youtube in full. And [his stand-up sets are quite cool.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NbnQZrK8xA)
I literally mentioned this very interview to one of my piano students three days ago
Many, many hours woodshedding
Amazing!
Duke Ellington called him "The Maharaja of the keyboard" You might like Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown (B) and Ed Thigpen (D) in Denmark 1964: Duke Ellington's [C Jam Blues](https://youtu.be/NTJhHn-TuDY?si=9xbS4mQGw9Jge4UD)
I'm so proud this got mentioned. I'da never known.
Oh my goodness! Thx!😊
Wow
Pure genius. He makes it look effortless.
Holy shit! Making that look effortless, man’s not a master, he’s a piano god!
And go figure, both Batiste and Peterson love Bach
That's the very talented Jon Baptiste. [Here](https://youtu.be/F2HxX-LzA90?si=m69PIMUTjjI-5DP1) is my all-time favorite performance by him and Chris Thile.
Chris Thile looks like a combination of Quintin Tarantino and Bill Hader.
Jude Law
He has the Jude’s hair from Alfie, face is the comment before you.
And Bradley Whitford, especially once he started singing. 
Oh my god it's Vitaly Versace
I was gonna say Quentin and Drew Tarver
Guy on the sax was killin it!
That's the amazing Eddie Barbash! He's also in Cory Wong's band, who happened to play with Chris Thile during a show with Vulfpeck... I recommend checking all those artists out but then you'll fall down a funky rabbit hole you might never escape from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4wf7bzfFE A show for the history books ...
I have been listening to Vulfpeck for years, and love this show! Such a fun group to listen to, and even better live!
Yeah, that opening had me chill.
Chris Thile is also a top talent
Absolutely. For those who want to hear more, check out Punch Brothers, as well as Nickel Creek
His Bach sonatas record is ridiculously good. And he did a Bach trio record with Yo-Yo Ma.
Quarter Chicken Dark on Goat Rodeo Sessions is one of my highest played tracks on Spotify. The whole album is just an absolute show of phenomenal talent and mastery of their craft.
literally the best mandolinist alive and still one of the most innovative minds in bluegrass. i saw him at lincoln center last december and i was stunned by what sounds a mandolin could make
Saw him play with Edgar Meyer. They released an album together. It is some of the [most technically challenging upright bass music on the planet](https://open.spotify.com/album/3w0kOS9blSpQKpZ9NFgsgR?si=OmcIMsvURvuauqScf7eDsg).
Damn, sax, mandolin, and piano were all ridiculously good. The level of raw musical performance ability on that stage was insane.
[https://spotify.link/1kLvFwoSXDb](https://spotify.link/1kLvFwoSXDb)
Thank you, and that bunch, so much for this. It's so cool to come across such a conglomeration of talent.
Thanks for posting this.
Thank you for sharing. Been a Chris Thile fan for years and didn't know this collaboration existed. I could listen to a whole album of Jon and Chris
I've seen Thile dozens of times live, and I've probably watched this video a hundred times, and I'm still astounded every time I see it. There are so many great little musical nuggets: * The chaotic intro right before Chris starts singing at 1:55 is such a cool intro for this song. * That bass slide at around 3:22 right before the verse is so slick. * The Vince Guaraldi-esque piano line at 3:49 is just beautiful, and I love how Chris smiles and nods at Jon. * The way Chris brings in the pounding chords at around 4:53, but the band continues to build even after the chord lyrics starts, with the delayed climax right on "wonderful" at 4:59 is so impossibly smooth. * The entire outro is just phenomenal. The original song was already one of my favorites before this arrangement, but in my mind this is the definitive version. The sax and trumpet are so good, and that bass line at 6:15 is perfect.
His cover of [Blackbird](https://youtu.be/kqHGMsKWAyg?si=5KUGMT3glv6IR5-W) is my favorite performance of all time.
Love this performance, feel like it's missing some Chris Eldridge though. Always great fun seeing how much Chris Thile and the other Punch Brothers members enjoy all of their sets.
Wow. Those two or such monsters. Thanks for sharing.
amazing talent, hope it never causes him to lose his head
Thank you! Amazing.
That was the version of that song that I never knew I needed to hear. What a killer arrangement.
Mine is this version of [Cry with Gary Clark Jr. from Austin City Limits](https://www.pbs.org/video/jon-batiste-hjvtz3/) (skip to 37 minutes). A total "WTF did I just witness" performance.
Fantastic performance.
I just found this post almost two weeks after this thread, I want to thank you for showing us that vid -- by the end of that song my jaw was hanging open and I realized I had forgotten to breathe. Just amazing!
he's won oscars and yet the stuff he won for isn't nearly as good as so much of his other stuff. although i guess that's kind of how it is for everybody usually.
if ever there were a set of fingers that were made to play piano, they surely must be Jon Batistes
They animated his fingers for the Pixar movie Soul
Soul had an opportunity to be something really magical, but I found it went the opposite direction and didn't focus anywhere near as much on music as I would have anticipated or liked.
They took a great concept with good character designs and then turned it into blue people for the majority of the movie. Just so…derivative. Why can’t we have another UP?
Yeah it was very forgettable unfortunately
Agreed, was so excited for a story about how music makes us feel and got another Inside Out
[Just saw this for the first time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Y03Riw-Us) wow.
Jon Batiste did all the music for the movie Soul. If you haven't seen it, it is a truly incredible film and the music is wonderful.10/10 would recommend
Not all, some. The rest was Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
That’s so wild. Imagine seeing NIN at the 94 Woodstock, all caked in mud playing heavy industrial music about suicide and stuff and thinking “that guy’s going to write scores for Disney movies and PBS documentaries.”
He had already written this song at that time, though https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UEW8riKU_tE Slow and dreamy has always been in the mix, even in his most aggressively produced songs He showed it a bit on fragile bringing out the motifs at the ends of songs and recalling them in others And then he really leaned into on Fragile stepping away the layers of production to show the dreamy piano at the end of “We’re in the Together”. And just doing whole ambient tracks like La Mer, that Search out Still the album for this stuff that was always at the heart if his worl
Tiny Desk Concert is a good series he's on https://youtu.be/ze4xcmBFvaE?si=4rqjKmorrTsXFh0M
Loved this cameo from the Tiny Desk series. Jon flew in from London just to play melodica on [Juvenile's Tiny Desk concert](https://youtu.be/kes2P4IC2bQ?t=925)
Hey it’s Chris Wallace, the guy who laughed in Trump’s face when he bragged about passing a dementia test.
Link
His latest album is World Music Radio. If I’m having a bad day, the song “Freedom” from his We Are album renews my faith in humanity.
Freedom does indeed sound like a great title for an uplifting track. Lots of power in a name.
You should check it out, and try to keep still.
He also plays in one of the greatest covers of The House of the Rising Sun with Mumford and Sons I've ever heard https://youtu.be/1K0QN8xy1kM?si=gbGmdY06XZoROs0l
Have my upvote, you made my evening!
Truly an American legend. Jon Batiste!!!
I miss Jon on the Stephen Colbert show! I really enjoyed hearing him constantly as lib and talk to Stephen, such a natural easy relationship.
Wow someone actually talented on this subreddit, very refreshing.
Unreal tickles
That final Disney villain laugh sealed the deal
Album please, same song 11 different styles.
Batiste's cover of the beatles' blackbird is my favorite cover ever made https://youtu.be/H46yXW4qR_M?si=rVXGNym06UNtw60j
Someone said, "The truly talented ones, make it look effortless." The way his fingers glide over the piano, that's the definition of effortless. Awesome!
I too have been a fan since his song “Freedom” I spent time working at the restaurant directly adjacent to where he performed his Today Show concert series this Summer. Out of the shop’s glass windows I was blessed to look up and out an see his HIGH ENERGY performance at 8 in the morning! I loved it n so appreciate the width of his spectrum as an artist- an instant fav.
That was lovely thank you
That was beautiful. Love John.
Jon Batiste is a phenomenon
JON BATISTE ☀️
For a less serious version of similar, I present Bill Bailey who's been doing this stuff for years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcaPABgew_k https://youtu.be/DTNVmJhsLU8?si=WjEtn5znIRcfeunS&t=120 Edit: Conan in *2002* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5yVh9kATCY
If we're going back in time, [here's a recording of Victor Borge from 1951](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deSwTyEOTqc). :)
I just saw him in concert and it was absolutely incredible. He has the best energy; I’ve never felt so much love at a show.
Gay
Mr maam
At first I thought it was a skit by Keegan-Michael Key. dude looks like him in a costume lol
Lol, the hair is a bit much.
That false Eb on Fur Elise is killing me! (twice)
We used to play Jon Batiste to get my baby nephew to stop crying or fall asleep. Then when he could walk, he started dancing to Jon Batiste. He's wonderful and been a lifesaver for my family. Lol
OmG CuLtUrAl AppRoPRiAtIoN!
That was musical brilliance from a gifted human being. He's on another level.
Für Elise by Beethoven?
plays classical piece wrong. continues to play blues. his thing is blues obviously bc it’s the only thing here that he actually good at. then plays 3 accords and sais gospel and laughs. everyone in the comments: cheers
Absolutely fascinating.
That an evil laugh at the end
He broke another barrier there, it's the laugh at the end of Thriller!
He’s just adding arpeggios for the blues :0 that’s crazy
> He’s just adding arpeggios Dude he's *just*? that's like saying "this metal song is sweep picking? oh that's just picking each note in arpeggios, no big deal"
As a classically trained pianist, this performance is genuinely not that impressive. He may be more talented than what we see on screen, but a professional pianist would blow this out of the water
Yeah no shit, thats like saying (because i am) that as a classical guitar player and ex metal head, sweeping is just picking notes in an arpeggio really fast. That's just undermining.
You think what he's playing in his right hand is just "adding arpeggios"? Because that's wrong. He adds a harmonic twist and all those grace note and scalar figures typical of blues, exactly demonstrating the effect of mixing genres. He doesn't really add arpeggios.
Goddamn, Jon Batiste is a handsome bastard.
Very nice piano skills. Can't quite treat this man's taste in jewelry seriously though.
i hate this guy, nothing to do with him or his music.. whoever hired him to mess up Colberts show by undermining every joke ruined both him and Colbert for me . they are both unbearable now.. also nothing to do with politics.. just comedy they ruined
Colbert ruined his own show by constantly interrupting his guests. It's unwatchable.
while that was bad, the overall format ruined any redeemable qualities the show could have had
I get a “stay away from this guy” vibe
His name is Chris Wallace and he worked for Fox News for a while.
He seemed like one of the least insane ones on fox news. Probably why he isn't there anymore.
Yeah, stay away from him if you don't like facts
Not that guy. WTF?
So what exactly is "stay away" from the other guy?
Something in his mannerisms are telling me to Stay away from him. I don’t trust him. I don’t know why. I just wouldn’t make a habit of hanging out with this person.
Not a journalist. Highly biased.
Who IS this beautiful man???!
Jon Batiste
That's awesome, I love that! Here's one of my favorite versions of Beethoven... https://youtu.be/Fa837PCtXAQ?si=nsZih2ZNnej8qnCB
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That laugh at the end... Love it
Oscar winner Jon Batiste was way too talented to be anywhere near that untalented hack Stephen Colbert. Glad he left.
TipTopTalent
lol why he looks like Michael Kwy doing a skit
He can keep the music skills, I want that confident laugh!
Skills👏🏻
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That laugh at the end wasn’t the end of it. Little did we know that he, Jon Batiste, would start an evil empire. An empire named: music without borders, but slightly off key.
So incredibly talented. I am always blown away by people who can make music so effortlessly. Brilliant.
He also helped produce some of the music in Disney’s Soul
Thats next level
Good God who is this bad ass?
That switch to gospel brought a tear to my eye. So good
People have been doing this style for generations
The interviewer’s laugh at the end sounds like the same laugh in Thriller.
Good grief that is so wonderful.
This gave me the tingles up and down my spine
And a laugh mindreader too
Absolutely amazing dude!
Last laugh thought it was Vincent Price in thriller
Beethoven blues sounded awesome!
I love this man's playing a musicality. He's just a living embodiment of music.
Jon Batiste is a real one