Jon Batiste’s new album, Black Mozart, was released on Friday, August 14. The record is the second in the Batiste Piano Series and finds Batiste reimagining Mozart’s melodies through the lens of Black American classical music, with songs influenced by genres like jazz, blues, and stomps.

While Batiste chose to focus on modernizing classic melodies with his Piano Series, there are a significant number of songs across genres that utilize the instrument. Let’s create a playlist of songs that contain piano.

So for today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that feature a piano would you like to hear?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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