Jon Batiste – Music From and Inspired By Soul (Vinyl LP)

The new Pixar film Soul imagines that every person on earth comes pre-installed with a soul formed and perfected in a cosmic realm. Jamie Foxx plays a middle-school music teacher on earth who dreams of playing at legendary New York jazz club, The Blue Note. After the wrong step into an open sewer grate, Joe slips back into his soul form back in the other realm – with some existential work to do before he might land his big gig.

Soul comes from visionary filmmaker Pete Docter, the Academy Award-winning director behind Inside Out and Up, and co-director/writer Kemp Powers, playwright and screenwriter of One Night in Miami. It stars the voice talents of Foxx, Tina Fey, Phylicia Rashad, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Angela Bassett and Daveed Diggs and features original jazz music by globally renowned musician Jon Batiste and a score composed by Oscar-winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network).

Best known for being the bandleader on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Batiste also served as a cultural consultant for the movie. “This film has a lot of light in it,” Batiste says. “It’s a lot of light and life force energy, I like to call it…was really the beginning of me figuring out my way into the jazz music in the film. Finding the spiritual tone.”

1. Born to Play
2. Born to Play Reprise
3. Bigger Than Us
4. Collard Greens and Cornbread Strut
5. Joe’s Lowdown Blues
6. 22’s Getaway
7. Apex Wedge
8. Let Your Soul Glow
9. Feel Soul Good
10. Looking at Life
11. Fruit of the Vine
12. The Epic Conversationalist / Born to Play
13. Celestial Spaces in Blue
14. Spiritual Connection
15. The Initial Pursuit
16. It’s All Right
17. Space Maker
18. Cristo Redentor
19. Danceland
20. Epistrophy
21. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
22. Blue Rondo a la Turk