¹ Batiste uses this stylized capitalization throughout marketing materials for the album and I follow suit in this review. Interestingly, the physical liner notes that come with the vinyl record omit capital letters altogether.

² For more on Batiste's role as late-night TV acousmêtre and the racial history of this trope, see Morse, Nicole Erin, “Staying Human: Jon Batiste as Acousmêtre on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 50, no. 1 (2022): 2–12CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

³ In addition to “WORK IT OUT,” the deluxe edition notably includes a Big Freedia remix of “FREEDOM” and a version of “ADULTHOOD” featuring BJ the Chicago Kid.

⁴ The correspondence between these two periods can be seen in the album's graphic design. The “WE ARE” typeface on the LP is a gender-inclusive take on the “I AM A MAN” signs used by activists in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike.

⁵ For a musical history of the Batiste family, see Batiste, Paul A., (Gon’ Be Dat) New Orleans Music: Memoirs of Paul Batiste (New Orleans: Artang Publishing Co., 2012)Google Scholar.

⁶ “I'm From Kenner” is the title of a track from the independently released My N.Y. (2011) that many will recognize from its use as transition music on Late Night with Stephen Colbert.

⁷ When I spoke to Hot 8 Brass Band trumpeter Christopher Cotton about recording “ADULTHOOD,” he described these three songs as conceptually linked. Batiste also explicitly calls the three songs a suite in an interview with Relix Media: Dean Budnick, “Track By Track: Jon Batiste ‘We Are,’” Relix Media, November 24, 2021, https://relix.com/articles/detail/track-by-track-jon-batiste-we-are/.

⁸ In the lyrics, Batiste uses Booker's oft-used sobriquet, “Bayou Maharajah.” For an excellent documentary on Booker's life featuring interviews with his friends and colleagues, see Lily Keber, dir., Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker (Cadiz Music, 2013), http://www.bayoumaharajah.com/.

⁹ Cvetkovich, Ann, Depression: A Public Feeling (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012)Google Scholar.

¹⁰ 5× GRAMMY Winner Jon Batiste Comes Home To The Late Show, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvozYO7eow0.

¹¹ Henry, Jasmine, “#GrammysNotAsWhite: Critical Race Theory and the Grammys’ Race Problem,” The Popular Culture Studies Journal 8, no. 2 (2020): 121–40Google Scholar.

¹² Christopher Cotton, telephone interview with author, December 4, 2022.

¹³ For more on the city's Black, all-boy Catholic school, St. Aug, and the Marching 100, see Bended Knees: The Story of the Marching 100, Documentary (Cierra Films, 2000), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrb2vBCNW78.