Grammy winner JonBatiste's next move? Remaking a Billy Ocean classic for Amazon's Prime Day campaign. RSRecommends
“The other wild thing about this process that I loved — I’m used to just from working in TV and working in film — but we put this together in less than a week,” Batiste says.
“It was really a quick turnaround,” Batiste continues. “The musicians, and the orchestra, we had a small chamber orchestra in the studio — it’s layered in there. We had a horns section, all types of incredible musicians coming in and out over the course of a day-and-a-half putting it together, so it was just an incredible music experience.”
Though Batiste worked with several musicians around New York City on the campaign’s cover track, he explains “the majority of it was recorded in Power Station, which is this incredible studio on 53rd Street in New York.”In the music video’s intro, Batiste runs down his wishlist of items he’s considering buying this year, from socks to piano polish. But what he’s really searching for this year is something that didn’t make it in the final cut: CDs to add to his collection.
That includes collaborations between Hazel Scott and Billie Holiday, any “lost tapes” by Nai Palm of Haitus Kaiyote, and a CD that features the clean version of
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