This September marks 10 years since “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” debuted, with Batiste—who appeared almost every night until 2022—and his band Stay Human serving as the house band.
The 38-year-old has since composed the jazz pieces heard in Disney-Pixar’s “Soul,” portrayed Billy Preston—and provide the score—in last year’s “Saturday Night,” and won five Grammy Awards for 2021’s We Are (stylized in all-caps), including Album of the Year.
Along with this morning’s “Big Money” tour announcement (named after a new composition that will debut during this tour), Batiste declared that “the things that are eternally valuable and enduring last forever even when the currency changes.”
His date in Clearwater will be his first stop in Tampa Bay in over a decade, and if you can’t make a Wednesday night work, Batiste will be playing Ft. Lauderdale the next night, followed by Orlando on Friday, and St. Augustine on Saturday.
Tickets to see Jon Batiste play Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 8 go on sale Tuesday, May 20 and start at $63.25.
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Jon Batiste
Wed., Oct. 8, 8 p.m.
Location: Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 McMullen Booth Rd., Clearwater
This article appears in May 15-21, 2025.