Jon Batiste, who plays Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida on Oct. 8, 2025. Credit: Photo via L Paul Mann / Shutterstock.com
Let your soul glow, because new-age jazzman Jon Batiste has announced a run of fall shows, which includes an October stop at Clearwaterโ€™s Ruth Eckerd Hall.

This September marks 10 years since โ€œThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert” debuted, with Batisteโ€”who appeared almost every night until 2022โ€”and his band Stay Human serving as the house band.

The 38-year-old has since composed the jazz pieces heard in Disney-Pixarโ€™s โ€œSoul,โ€ portrayed Billy Prestonโ€”and provide the scoreโ€”in last yearโ€™s โ€œSaturday Night,โ€ and won five Grammy Awards for 2021โ€™s We Are (stylized in all-caps), including Album of the Year.

Along with this morning’s โ€œBig Moneyโ€ tour announcement (named after a new composition that will debut during this tour), Batiste declared that โ€œthe things that are eternally valuable and enduring last forever even when the currency changes.โ€

His date in Clearwater will be his first stop in Tampa Bay in over a decade, and if you canโ€™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 Clearwaterโ€™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

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...