What is the best Jon Batiste album?

Grammy-crowned statements share the stage with solo-piano experiments, smoky live jazz sets, and genre-hopping concept records. Which deserves the crown?

1

We Are

Batiste's 2021 breakthrough that won the Grammy for Album of the Year, blending soul, gospel, and jazz.

1000pts

2

World Music Radio

His genre-spanning 2023 concept album framed as a global radio broadcast.

571pts

3

Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard

A 2019 live album capturing Batiste's trio at the famed jazz club.

422pts

4

Social Music

The 2013 album with Stay Human that fused jazz, soul, and pop into a joyful whole.

281pts

5

Soul

The Oscar-winning 2020 Pixar score Batiste composed with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

281pts

6

The Process

A 2014 experimental collaboration with Chad Smith and Bill Laswell.

281pts

7

Hollywood Africans

A 2018 Grammy-nominated set of intimate, piano-forward Americana and jazz.

281pts

8

Beethoven Blues

His 2024 solo-piano project reimagining Beethoven through a blues and improvisational lens.

281pts

9

Big Money

Batiste's 2025 studio album exploring ambition and American life.

192pts

10

Times in New Orleans

Batiste's early 2005 album rooted in the traditions of his hometown.

192pts