When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds.
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FILE - Jon Batiste performs during the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Manchester, Tenn. FILE - Jon Batiste poses for a portrait during the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in night haunts in the heart of New Orleans.
The album was written through a process called “spontaneous composition,” which he views as a lost art in classical music. It's extemporization; Batiste sits at the piano and interpolates Beethoven's masterpieces to make them his own. Contrary to what many might think, Batiste said that Beethoven's rhythms are African. “On a basic technical level, he’s doing the thing that African music ingenuity brought to the world, which is he’s playing in both a two meter and a three meter at once, almost all the time. He's playing in two different time signatures at once, almost exclusively," he said.
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