How making music became an act of survival for Jon Batiste
They met more than 20 years ago, as tweens at a summer band camp. They've been through so much together. And, caught on camera in the documentary "American Symphony," they've seen the most dizzying of highs and frightening of lows. So what message would Jon Batiste send his wife, writer Suleika Jaouad in song? A heartfelt "It Never Went Away."
"We've been in each other's lives since 12 and 14 years old. And every time I see her, I feel that love that has never went away," he says. "And this human condition and this truth of the duality of things has never went away."
The film captures composer-singer-multi-instrumentalist Batiste at a pinnacle — spanning genres including jazz, R&B, roots and classical (), fame as the band leader on "" and deep in the composition of a new symphonic work he would premiere at Carnegie Hall.
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