Late-night tv would possibly sound a little bit totally different as of late: Louis Cato is the brand new bandleader for The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, taking on for Jon Batiste on a everlasting foundation after filling in for the Grammy winner this summer season.
Host Stephen Colbert introduced the changeup on the CBS present on Thursday, August 11, hailing the “musical genius” of Cato, who’s been a member of the home band since Colbert took over The Late Present in 2015.
“Louis has achieved an incredible job this summer season, and he’s very humble, so he gained’t say this,” Colbert mentioned. “However I’ll. He’s a musical genius. He can play principally each instrument over there. Give him a day; he’ll discover ways to play Mozart on a shoehorn.”
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As bandleader of the group now known as The Late Present Band, Cato will work with persevering with band members Joe Saylor, Louis Fouché, Jon Lampley, Endea Owens and Nêgah Santos.
“It has been one of many nice honors of my life to work on this present, alongside among the most gifted musicians and creatives I do know,” Cato mentioned in a press release, per Selection. “Watching and studying from each Jon and Stephen for these previous seven years, I’m genuinely excited to proceed the custom of excellence they’ve established.”
In response to his bio, Cato is a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter who has labored with Beyoncé, John Legend, and Mariah Carey, and toured with Bobby McFerrin and John Scofield, amongst others. Born in Portugal and raised in a musical family within the Carolinas, Cato was drumming by age 2 and taking part in wind devices by age 12, the bio provides. He later added guitar and bass to his repertoire as he labored his means round underground jazz and soul venues in Boston.
Cato performed with jazz multi-instrumentalist Marcus Miller at a jam session on the North Sea Jazz Competition in 2007 and toured with him for a number of years. Actually, Cato was touring with Miller in Switzerland in 2012 when their tour bus crashed. Cato broke his again in two locations within the wreck. “I’m nonetheless right here and am very grateful for that,” he advised Berklee Right now in 2016. “I took away from that that I’m nonetheless alleged to be right here.”
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An opportunity run-in with Batiste years in the past close to Boston’s Berklee Faculty of Music, the place Cato studied for 2 semesters, led to Batiste calling Cato to supply a session for him in 2015 — and later bringing him aboard at The Late Present. “[Jon] mentioned he was recording theme music for a TV present,” Cato advised Berklee Right now, recalling that 2015 session. “I nearly didn’t do it as a result of I needed to get again to Boston the following day to have some knowledge tooth pulled, however I adopted my intestine and stayed.”
Cato launched his first solo document, Beginning Now, which he combined and produced himself, in 2016. Along with his new function as Late Present bandleader, the Brooklyn resident is engaged on a brand new album, Reflections, due for launch later this 12 months.
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