On Sept. 16, 22-time Grammy nominated musician Jon Batiste performs his Big Money tour for one of the last shows of the Cuthbert Amphitheater’s 2025 Summer Concert Series. Many know Batiste as Stephen Colbert’s bandleader from 2015-2022. Others may know who he is because he co-composed the music for Disney’s animated jazz musical Soul (2020). An entirely different demographic probably recognizes his name because he performed the National Anthem at the 2025 Super Bowl. But if you really like music, you know that Batiste is a mystifying genre-bending prodigy who has dabbled with practically every type of music under the sun. His show, he tells Eugene Weekly , is “built on the concept of a circus tent.” It is a “circus of love,” if you will. PDX Jazz, a nonprofit out of Portland that

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