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As Batiste's reputation grew, he was invited to play with Prince and championed by Quincy Jones. Field recordings of the Love Riots were turned into an album, Social Music, which topped the US jazz charts and, in 2015, he was hired as the musical director for Stephen Colbert's late night talk show.