Reitman also recruited Batiste to appear in the film as Billy Preston, SNL’s first musical guest. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.) Listen to “Saturday Night” by Jon ...
“Saturday Night” director Jason Reitman didn’t want a score that paid homage to “Saturday Night Live.” Musician Jon Batiste says, “He wanted a pressure cooker of a score, and I ...
Genre-hopping musician Jon Batiste started off his busy year ... chaos of the lead-up to the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live, and director Jason Reitman wanted a score to match.