ESSENCE.com’s “New and Next” column spotlights the brightest new talents we think you should know. This week we meet jazz band Jon Batiste and Stay Human. Consisting of four dynamic Julliard-trained musicians and led by Louisiana-born pianist Jon Batiste, Stay Human aims to transcend the traditional jazz category and bring jazz to a new generation of music lovers. “I think jazz is powerful because it can accomodate many different things,” Batiste tells ESSENCE.com.
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“You can have jazz that has influences from all types of music. And Social Music takes that concept even further to what represents our generation [which is] an intergration of everything.”
Watch Jon Batiste and Stay Human perform “Glory House” above and chances are you’ll get as excited about them as we are.