Jon Batiste gets off the elevator and doesn’t say a word to the percussionists already tapping out rhythms for a rooftop soundcheck at New York’s NoMad Hotel — he just plops down at the white Steinway and joins in. There’s not much of an audience beyond a handful of photographers,…

Source: RollingStone
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