“Batiste spends his major label debut walking his listeners through the very history of recorded music, channeling his ancestral heroes and proving himself to be a master curator of the arts. Hollywood Africans is a visceral reminder of the power of music as both a means of overcoming adversity and as a healing balm on the path to recovery”
– @theyoungfolks
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“On Hollywood Africans Jon Batiste proves that given most any style or song, he can make it work. Batiste reveals both his romantic and child-like sides. The sound quality of the album, which was recorded in a New Orleans church and produced by the noted T Bone Burnett, is truly be appreciated”
– @louisianaweekly
