Posts Tagged ‘Jon Batiste’

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the animated feature The Wild Robot written and directed by Chris Sanders and starring Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames and Mark Hamill. The film’s original score is composed by Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, Green Book, King Richard, Haunted Mansion, […]

Verve Records will release a soundtrack album for the biographical comedy drama Saturday Night. The album features the film’s original score written and recorded live on set by Academy Award and Grammy Award winner Jon Batiste (Soul, American Symphony). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 27 and will be available to stream/download on […]

THR is reporting that singer/songwriter, jazz pianist and composer Jon Batiste (Soul, American Symphony, The First Wave) has been tapped to score the upcoming biographical comedy drama SNL 1975. The film is directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air, Ghostbusters: Afterlife) and stars Gabriel LaBelle as SNL creator Lorne Michaels, alongside Cooper Hoffman, […]

Executive producers Raj Kapoor, Molly McNearney & Katy Mullan announced today the performers of the Oscar-nominated songs at next week’s 96th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Jon Batiste will perform his song It Never Went Away (co-written with Dan Wilson) from the Netflix documentary American Symphony, Becky G will perform the Diane Warren-penned […]

Already playing in theaters nationwide since this past Wednesday is the animated musical comedy Wish directed by Chris Buck & Fawn Veerasunthorn and starring Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Alan Tudyk, Natasha Rothwell, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters and Ramy Youseff. The film’s original songs are written by Julia Michaels & Benjamin Rice […]

Verve Records and Interscope Records have released the original song It Never Went Away from the Netflix original documentary American Symphony. The track co-written and -produced (with Dan Wilson) and performed by Grammy Award- and Academy Award-winning musician/composer Jon Batiste (Soul, The First Wave, She Ball) and is now available to stream/download on all major […]

In a tie, Carlos Rafael Rivera has won his first Grammy Award for his score for the Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit and Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross were honored for their music for Pixar’s Soul in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category at today’s 64th Annual Grammy Awards Premiere […]

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the supernatural comedy Ghostbusters: Afterlife directed by Jason Reitman and starring Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Annie Potts and Paul Rudd. The film’s original music is composed by Rob Simonsen (Foxcatcher, The Way Back, Nerve, Tully, (500) Days of Summer, The Age of Adeline, The Front Runner). Sony Classical has […]

Walt Disney Records has released a new soundtrack album for Pixar’s animated feature Soul. The album features eight jazz selections from and inspired by the film by Jon Batiste who received his first Academy Award this year for his work on the movie. Five of the tracks included on the record have previously only been […]

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste were honored with the Academy Award for their score for Pixar’s Soul at tonight’s 93rd Oscar ceremony. Reznor & Ross have previously received their first Oscar for their music for 2010’s The Social Network and were also nominated this year for their music for David Fincher’s Mank. The […]