BIG MONEY, the ninth studio album by the singer, multi-instrumentalist, and Juilliard-educated composer Jon Batiste, is a response to this question. Throughout his career, Batiste has skirted easy categorization, blurring genres and styles. His GRAMMY® Award–winning album We Are (2021) fused R&B, jazz, hip-hop, soul, blues and classical music, drawing from influences ranging from Little Richard and James Brown to the Jackson 5 and Kendrick Lamar. Last year’s Beethoven Blues was a blues-infected reimagining of Beethoven compositions. ...