He needed an anti-score, Batiste says.
He wanted something thatwasntthat, something that felt alive and raw.
The process drew on his roots in New Orleans as much as it did his training at Julliard.
Jon Batiste, as Billy Preston, shakes hands with Lamorne Morris, who plays Garrett Morris, on the set of ‘Saturday Night’Hopper Stone/Columbia Pictures
It felt like a very African diasporic approach, he says.
It is Album of the Year-worthy, he says.
So its definitely worthy of it.
Where does it end, where does it start?
