Best Of: Jon Batiste's 'Beethoven Blues' / Visual Artist Mickalene Thomas

689.432 - 722.73 Jon Batiste

There's polyrhythms. Even in that short theme, you're hearing the two and the three. When you put those together, it creates something that is infectious that whether he was referencing that or not, it's something that's a universal, connective, magnetic truth in music. It's like things that make you cry every time you hear them, things that make you dance every time you hear them.