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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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Nashville-based country singer Nate Smith has 1.6B+ career streams, multiple gold and platinum records, and two No. 1 hits: Whiskey on You and World on Fire. His self-titled debut album debuted Top 10 on Billboard’s Country Albums chart.
Formed in 2014 by husband-and-wife duo Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter, The War And Treaty blend roots and country. GRAMMY-nominated for Best New Artist and “Blank Page,” they won AMA Duo/Group of the Year twice and released major label debut Lover’s Game.
Thundercat is bassist-singer Stephen Bruner, a multi-GRAMMY winner. His album It Is What It Is won Best Progressive R&B Album and was co-produced with Flying Lotus. Known for Them Changes and collabs with Tame Impala, Gorillaz and Silk Sonic.
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.
GRAMMY-winning trumpeter and songwriter Keyon Harrold, born and raised in Ferguson, MO, was hailed as “the future of the trumpet” by Wynton Marsalis. His album The Mugician blends jazz, classical, rock, blues, and hip hop with lyrics/spoken word.
Huntertones are a horn-driven band blending jazz, funk, pop, soul, hip-hop and R&B. Led by Dan White, Jon Lampley and Chris Ott, they appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and performed with Lawrence and Lake Street Dive.
Denver-based electronic duo Big Gigantic (Dominic Lalli, Jeremy Salken) fuse saxophone-driven beats with jazz, hip-hop, funk, and bass. Known for songs like All of Me and The Little Things, and their sold-out annual Rowdytown at Red Rocks.
Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling rose to prominence in the 1990s, blending jazz with R&B and poetry. Known for energetic live shows featuring scat and beatboxing, he’s collaborated with Charlie Hunter and Branford Marsalis.
Christian McBride is an 11-time GRAMMY-winning bassist, composer, and bandleader. Artistic Director of the Newport Jazz Festival, NJPAC, TD James Moody Jazz Festival, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem; hosts NPR’s Jazz Night in America.
California-born, New York-based guitarist Julian Lage is praised by The New Yorker as a top improviser. Known for impeccable technique and free association, he’s collaborated with Gary Burton and John Zorn, and done duo projects with Nels Cline, Chris Eldridge and Fred Hersch.
Memphis-born saxophonist/flutist Charles Lloyd is a genre-bending jazz visionary. His charting albums include Of Course, Of Course, Forest Flower (a million-seller) and In the Soviet Union. Voted DownBeat Jazz Artist of the Year (1967).
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.
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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