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Jon Batiste with Nate Smith, The War And Treaty, and more

Aug 5, 2023 at 10:00 AM  ·  Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI

Jon Batiste
Aug 5
Jon Batiste
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Nate Smith is a country singer known for his platinum-certified hits Whiskey on You and World on Fire, which set a record for consecutive weeks at No. 1. He has earned over 1.6 billion streams, gold and platinum records, and the ACM New Male Artist of the Year award.
Founded in 2014 by husband-and-wife duo Michael and Tanya Trotter, American music act The War And Treaty released the acclaimed major label debut album Lover’s Game. They earned GRAMMY nominations for Best New Artist and Best American Roots Song for Blank Page, and collaborated with Zach Bryan on Hey Driver.
Thundercat is the stage name of virtuoso bassist and singer Stephen Bruner, a multi-GRAMMY award winner. He won a GRAMMY for his 2020 album It Is What It Is and released acclaimed records like Drunk. He has collaborated with Gorillaz, Silk Sonic, and Tame Impala.
Grammy-winning trumpeter Keyon Harrold, hailed by Wynton Marsalis as the future of the trumpet, was born and raised in Ferguson, Missouri. His cinematic, hard-to-categorize music blends jazz, classical, rock, blues, and hip hop, featuring collaborations with artists like Pharoahe Monch, Gary Clark Jr., and Robert Glasper.
Huntertones blends jazz, funk, pop, soul, hip-hop, and R&B. The band features saxophonist Dan White, trumpeter Jon Lampley, trombonist Chris Ott, guitarist Josh Hill, bassist Adam DeAscentis, and drummer John Hubbell. They have appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, released albums including Passport and Motionation, and performed with artists like Lawrence and Lake Street Dive.
Denver electronic duo Dominic Lalli and Jeremy Salken fuse jazz, funk, and hip-hop into high-energy live sets featuring saxophone. Since 2009, they have released nine albums, accumulated hundreds of millions of streams, and raised over $1 million through their foundation.
Kurt Elling is a Grammy-winning jazz vocalist known for his vocal range, scat singing, and blending jazz with R and B and poetry. Emerging in the 1990s, he has collaborated with Charlie Hunter and Branford Marsalis, earning critical acclaim and awards from DownBeat and Jazz Times.
Christian McBride is an 11-time GRAMMY-winning bassist, composer, and bandleader. He serves as Artistic Director for the Newport Jazz Festival, NJPAC, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and hosts NPR's Jazz Night in America.
California-born, New York-based guitarist Julian Lage is renowned for his impeccable technique and exploration of American music. With a prolific solo career, he has also collaborated with Gary Burton, John Zorn, Nels Cline, Chris Eldridge, and Fred Hersch.
Charles Lloyd is a Memphis-born jazz saxophonist and flutist known for his improvisational skills and blending jazz with folk, rock, and non-Western traditions. His 1966 album Forest Flower became a million-selling crossover hit.
Charlie Hunter is an innovative writer, producer and bandleader with 35 years’ career and 30+ albums. An authority on seven- and eight-string guitar, he’s recorded for Blue Note and collaborated with Norah Jones, Mos Def, John Mayer and D’Angelo.
Born in Pakistan, Grammy-winning Arooj Aftab blends contemporary & roots styles; acclaimed for Vulture Prince, Night Reign; collabs Beck, Norah Jones, Bonobo.
Vijay Iyer, a composer-pianist known for his genre-blending jazz, was praised by The New York Times as a visionary artist. Born in America, he won a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Award, and received a Grammy nomination. Iyer collaborated with Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, and Wadada Leo Smith, creating acclaimed works like "Uneasy" and "Far From Over." His compositions have been commissioned by prominent ensembles and artists, and he teaches at Harvard University.
Jon Batiste is an American composer, pianist, singer and bandleader with eight Grammy Awards, plus an Emmy and an Oscar. His albums include WE ARE, which won Grammy Album of the Year, and BIG MONEY, Best Americana Album.
New York tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis blends jazz with hip-hop/funk; hailed by The Guardian & Pitchfork for fierce, exploratory sound; trio w/ Chad Taylor & Josh Werner.
Born in Philadelphia, jazz pianist/composer Orrin Evans is a fiercely indie, boundary-pushing bandleader: Tarbaby, Captain Black Big Band (Grammy noms ’19/’21) + The Bad Plus.
The Newport Jazz Festival, founded in 1954 by Elaine Lorillard and George Wein, revolutionized live jazz. It is celebrated for its open-minded embrace of jazz's evolution, from traditional to avant-garde, and its expansion into rock, soul, and other genres. The festival is renowned for launching careers and hosting legendary artists, with many iconic performances captured on record and film.

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