The first song I fell in love with I remember hearing Strokin’ by Clarence Carter because my dad would play it. I know every lyric, and at eight years old, I probably shouldn’t have. My earliest musical lessons came from my family. My Uncle Thomas would send me jazz recordings of Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, and he sent sermons, like the Book of Revelations. So, I would learn about a whole bunch of different music, and also study the word of God. The first single I bought I used to buy records from Blockbuster video, in the used CDs bin. I bought Michael Jackson’s Dangerous, Björk’s Vespertine, Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun and Common’s Like Water for Chocolate. Those are the first four records I bought. The song I can no longer listen to We used to play Steely Dan’s Reelin’ in the Years, when I was on The Late Show [Batiste appeared nightly as part of Stephen Colbert’s house band from 2015 to 2022]. I can’t listen to it because I played it hundreds of times.…