Jon Batiste is a five-time Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and composer. Most recently, Batiste received five Grammy nominations for his latest studio album, World Music Radio, including ‘Album of the Year.’ Batiste also earned an Oscar nomination this year for his song “It Never Went Away,” on behalf of the Netflix documentary American Symphony, which follows Batiste in early 2022, when he finds himself celebrated with 11 Grammy nominations, including album of the year for his 2021 studio album We Are. Batiste is currently on his first-ever headlining tour, visiting intimate theaters across North America and Canada, The Uneasy Tour: Purifying The Airwaves For The People. The music and conversation will pay homage to Nat King Cole’s, Live at the Blue NoteChicago, the never-before-heard audio recordings from his Chicago residency, recently released via Iconic Artists Group. It will be moderated by author and music journalist Marcus J. Moore, whose first book, The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, was published in 2020 by Simon & Schuster to critical acclaim. His next book, High and Rising (aka The De La Soul Book), will be published in November via HarperCollins.