A banner hanging above Jon Batiste’s stage Friday night, Oct. 24, at Detroit’s Fox Theatre declared that, “This is the circus of love. Under our tent there is revival and joy.” The two-hour show was, ...

To Jon Batiste, music is about much more than playing the right notes, releasing hit records and winning awards — although he does all of that, with regularity. “It’s more than entertainment,” the ...

There was, simply put, no way Jon Batiste was not going to be a musician. Born in Louisiana to one of New Orleans’ most prolific music families -- father Michael Batiste played bass for Jackie Wilson ...

Randy Newman hadn’t been doing much singing when he got a cold call from Jon Batiste. The musicians had met a decade earlier and spent some time together, but time went by, and they drifted apart. Now ...