At the 2022 TIME100 Summit, Jon Batiste opened the day with a performance—and discussed the power of music and jazz with Amber Ruffin.
isn’t just a Grammy, Oscar, and Golden-Globe-winning musician. He’s also been a voice for social change—not to mention the bandleader and musical director onon Tuesday in New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center, Batiste opened the morning with a powerful rendition of two songs, “Cry” and “Don’t Stop,” alongside a string quartet.
Ruffin opened the conversation by asking Batiste why, exactly, it’s been 14 years since a Black artist has won the Album of the Year, something that Batiste accomplished just this year. “Well, shucks. I think there’s a lot of things that happen that separate cultures, and unfortunately in this country we’ve had a severance of cultural understanding,” Batiste said. “The communities are just now starting to synthesize.
Ruffin and Batiste also discussed the legacy of Batiste’s hometown of New Orleans on his music, his childhood love for—of all things—coding, and the power of jazz, a subject Batiste delved into with his work on the Oscar-winning animated film“It’s so hard to put a finger on, but it’s important that we have that type of art form and culture in the world,” Batiste said about jazz. “Because if we lose that, we lose something very intrinsically important to our existence.
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