Wynton Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis Music is Life

Wynton Marsalis' Music is Life Internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, Wynton Marsalis talks about music, his mentors and the irreplaceable role of art and creativity in American culture. Part question and answer, part meditation on life, it was all magic at IdeaFestival® 2014. Check out some of the golden moments from this interview by…

Gabs Novellino October 22, 2021

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Peg Leg Bates

Happy Birthday, Peg Leg Bates – Born October 11, 1907 Clayton (Peg Leg) Bates (October 11, 1907 – December 6, 1998), a below-knee amputee from the age of 12, Bates grew up disabled and Black in the Jim Crow South. As a teenager in the 1920s, latched onto the vaudeville circuit, he moved onto minstrel shows…

Jo Hoffberg October 13, 2021

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