Jon Batiste on joining Little Simz' Meltdown: 'the system is trying to commodify young artists'

“Meltdown represents a lot of my philosophy of music, which is really genre-less and expansive and more rooted in culture and tradition - and making those things become brand new.”

So says musician, composer, bandleader and all-round music phenomenon, Jon Batiste, one of the performers at this year’s Meltdown, neatly summing up what the Southbank’s yearly festival represents at its core.