Jon Batiste Bids Adieu To The Late Show With Stephen Colbert After 7 Years, Here’s Who Will Replace Him
Academy and Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Batiste is leaving ‘The Late Present with Stephen Colbert’ after seven seasons, Colbert introduced Thursday evening on the present.
He’s exiting to “pursue private {and professional} pursuits”. Louis Cato, who has served as interim bandleader this summer season, will take over on a everlasting foundation and Colbert’s band, which beforehand had been known as “Keep Human” beneath Batiste’s route, will probably be renamed ‘The Late Present Band’, studies ‘Selection’.
Louis Cato will take over completely when the present returns for its eighth season on Tuesday, September 6.
“Louis has completed an incredible job this summer season, and he’s very humble, so he received’t say this. However I’ll. He’s a musical genius,” Colbert mentioned.
“He can play principally each instrument over there. Give him a day, he’ll discover ways to play Mozart on a shoehorn.”
Cato, has been with “The Late Present” since its relaunch beneath Stephen Colbert. The revised band will embrace Joe Saylor, who has carried out alongside Louis for the reason that present’s inception, and longtime home band members Louis Fouche, Jon Lampley, Endea Owens and Negah Santos.
“It has been one of many nice honors of my life to work on this present, alongside a few of the most gifted musicians and creatives I do know,” mentioned Louis Cato.
“Watching and studying from each Jon and Stephen for these previous seven years, I’m genuinely excited to proceed the custom of excellence they’ve established.”
Jon Batiste received 5 Grammys earlier this yr, out of a whopping 11 nominations, with huge wins, together with album of the yr. That got here after Batiste received an Oscar in 2021 for unique rating as a part of the trio of composers behind Disney-Pixar’s ‘Soul’.
“We’ve been so fortunate to have a entrance row seat to Jon’s unimaginable expertise for the previous seven years,” Stephen Colbert mentioned of Batiste.
“And can we miss him right here? ‘Yeaaa!’ However we’re blissful for you, Jon, and I can’t wait to have you ever again on as visitor together with your subsequent hit file.”
Louis Cato, a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter, has labored with artists, together with Beyonce, Mariah Carey, John Legend, Talib Kweli, Snarky Pet, David Sanborn, George Duke, Bobby McFerrin, Marcus Miller, John Scofield and A Tribe Known as Quest.
Cato launched his first solo file ‘Beginning Now’ in 2016, and he’s in post-production on his latest album ‘Reflections’, due out later this yr. He’s repped by supervisor and inventive producer Sam Goldberg and Jake Levy at Levy Regulation PLLC.
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