Jon Batiste
Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, 90068 Hollywood Kort
sun. 27.09.2026 19:30
Purposefully prolific and creatively visionary, Jon Batiste has channeled his transformative musical gifts into nine studio albums, an Oscar-winning film score, a symphony, a Grammy-winning documentary, and countless musical projects and collaborations. He released 2025’s Big Money—which Rolling Stone called “a deeply enjoyable left turn towards roots music”—off the back of his Maestro Tour (which included a stop at Walt Disney Concert Hall), an acclaimed Super Bowl performance, and his 2024 solo piano album Beethoven Blues, which topped the Billboard Classical Crossover and Classical Albums charts for nine consecutive weeks. Showing no sign of slowing down, Batiste continues to reach back into his cultural roots, reworking the sounds of many musical traditions and propelling them forward in a celebration of collective expression. Featuring cross-genre explorations through jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, gospel, blues, classical music, and sounds from around the world, Batiste’s Hollywood Bowl headlining debut promises to be a joyful, virtuosic, and spiritually transcendent entry into his expansive musical world.
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Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste is one of history’s most brilliant, prolific, and accomplished musicians. Batiste
studied and received both a B.A. and M.F.A. at the world-renowned Juilliard School in New York
City. From 2015 until 2022, Batiste served as the bandleader and musical director of The Late
Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. Most recently, Jon was awarded a Sports Emmy in the
category of “Outstanding Open/Tease” for his 2022 NCAA March Madness piece. In 2018, he
received a Grammy nomination for Best American Roots, and in 2020, he received two Grammy
nods for the albums: CHRONOLOGY OF A DREAM: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD and
MEDITATIONS (with Cory Wong). In 2020, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for
the Disney/Pixar film SOUL, an honor he shared with fellow composers Trent Reznor and Atticus
Ross. Jon’s work on SOUL also earned him a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a NAACP Image Award and
a Critic’s Choice Award. He is the second black composer in history, after legendary jazz
musician Herbie Hancock, to win an Academy Award for composition. Batiste’s latest studio
album, WE ARE, was released in March 2021 to overwhelming critical acclaim. Subsequently, he
was nominated for eleven Grammys across seven different categories, a first in Grammy
history. He went on to win five of those Grammys, including Album of the Year.