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• Wynton Marsalis:

  My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it,

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  What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and

• Wynton Marsalis:

  The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hi

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  Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

• Wynton Marsalis:

  I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's b

• Wynton Marsalis:

  The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

• Wynton Marsalis:

  I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the gi

• Wynton Marsalis:

  My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professi

• Wynton Marsalis:

  We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

• Wynton Marsalis:

  I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to