Jon Batiste's "Black Mozart," and how the past plays through us
Multi-Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar winner Jon Batiste tells Julia Marcus about his upcoming release "Black Mozart," which "reimagines the classical tradition through a Black American musical lens."
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