Jon Batiste won four Grammy Awards at the preshow. 'What my legacy has the potential of being is quite massive,' he told TIME last year GRAMMYs
for racial justice, advised the Biden Administration on the role of the arts in America, and arranged and performed music for dozens of editions ofAnd that’s almost all from the confines of his New Jersey home. “I don’t know if I would have done the things that I did this past year had not the rhythm of everything shifted,” Batiste says on a phone call. “I don’t know if it’s good—but I think that anything different is good when you’re creative.
Oh, man, it’s almost like how you would imagine the future in a sci-fi film. Growing up, my dad would watcha lot, and you’d have all these scenarios where it wasn’t safe to breathe the air and you’d have people wearing masks and helmets and traveling through space and time. And here we are in the largest convention center in the country, playing for these essential workers who are fighting a global pandemic. It just felt like nothing you can imagine going into this field of being a musician.
There were moments where I scored the idea of the scene before there was actually a scene. I remember talking to [director] Pete [Docter] about the audition sequence before it had been animated; he just kind of had this vision of Joe Gardner getting into a kind of peak flow state, and the band becoming enamored with him. To create that kind of narrative arc with just music: that set the tone for how Joe plays, and what music meant in the film for the rest of it.
But rock and roll started with Black dudes in the south: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino. And what ended up happening is there was this sort of adolescent revolution, which created a whole vision of music that was based not only in sound and culture, but based in a philosophy. And if you look at what largely happened to that style of music, in that perception of rock and roll, it became predominantly white.
Most of the time, we’re not talking about music. It’s just about life. Stevie, I remember him telling me once, ‘Don’t let anybody take your joy away.’ And that really resonated with me. And just in general, the whole aspect of your music being no more or no less than you are as a human being.
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