Jon Batiste

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I grew up in the Catholic.

My mother, she grew up Baptist, and then we went to Catholic church, but I also would sometimes go to the Baptist church and then eventually the AME church.

So I had this experience with mostly Catholic, but then also in New Orleans, there's a...

A lot of different manifestations of the Roman Catholic tradition is very tied to the culture and to Mardi Gras in ways that are very interesting.

But it was beautiful, in particular on Christmas, where we'd go to midnight mass and we would experience these hymns and people would sing and just have this majesty and this real allure for me.

I actually connected to it most during that time.

And I also learned a lot from Bach's music.

You know, we talked about Bach in the past and just how Bach is somebody who in history, you know,

him and Duke Ellington, they composed so much music.

But one function of why Bach was able to compose that much music besides the fact that maybe he was an alien is that he wrote for the church every Sunday.

And that ritual, and I imagine at some point, I don't know when in my life or when I would have the setup to do that, but I want to participate in some sort of

ritual in service to the Creator, where I'm composing and sharing that music, just like I experienced when I was growing up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

Let your heart be light.

Next year all our troubles will be out of sight.

That one, right?

By next year, yes.

Wow.