_Photo by Dino Perrucci_

Stephen Colbert has selected New Orleans icon Jon Batiste as the bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. A video posted on the forthcoming television show’s website finds Colbert in the Crescent City, where he breaks the news over a pile of delicious beignets. The clip appears to have been shot at the Blue Nile, a beloved music club on the city’s Frenchman Street.

While Batiste is primarily known for his musical work, he has also done a little bit of acting in Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer and the New Orleans-set HBO drama Treme (Batiste played himself on the program, as did his New Orleans Center for Creative Arts classmate Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews). He currently resides in New York City, where he serves as artistic-director-at-large for Harlem’s National Jazz Museum.

Batiste could be a great fit for the bandleader role, as he certainly has a sense of humor. The virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, who hails from New Orleans’ legendary Batiste family, once dropped by the Relix/Jambands.com office to treat us to an impromptu cover of Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball.”