Jon Batiste Talks His "Anatomy of Angels" Album & Cafe Carlyle Residency

Jon Batiste's album, "Anatomy of Angels: Live At The Village Vanguard," is one that strives to deconstruct the often spiritual process of improvisation. Within Batiste’s ideas is a love for, and understanding of, jazz history in full, a result of the comprehensive education he received as a promising talent in his native New Orleans. In the album, he cast his net wide—from the jazz canon, to the joyful, audience-inclusive Social Music that helped to make him a jazz star, to his developing desire to incorporate avant-garde approaches in his music. Batiste took the BUILD stage to talk about the album and his Cafe Carlyle residency.