Wynton Marsalis: Philosopher King of Jazz

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🗓️ 12 September 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Wynton Marsalis has been THE preeminent name in jazz for the past 30 years. The Louisiana-born trumpeter has made it his life's work to bring jazz back from the brink of neglect, to its rightful place - as one of the pillars of American culture, history & art. He's just as accomplished as a classical musician, a composer and an educator. In this episode you'll hear Marsalis as a young man, still in his 20's, full of the fire and the talent that has carried him throughout his career. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016

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0:00.0	The I'm going to be here. Winton Marcel was once called Music the Art of the Invisible and he said the notes were infused with a magical essence.
0:34.0	It's like the feeling of I Love You before the words
0:38.0	or the crest of a kiss before you even pocket your lips.
0:42.0	Well in jazz we call this soul. kiss before you even pucker your lips.
0:43.0	Well, in jazz we call this soul.
0:45.0	And no one really knows what soul means.
0:47.0	The only thing we know about soul is that you feel much better
0:50.0	after you've come in contact with it than you felt before it was present.
0:54.3	Winton Marsalis should know. He is the best known jazz musician of our times.
1:00.4	He's also a classical musician and a Pulitzer Prize winning composer and managing an artistic
1:07.0	director of jazz at Lincoln Center. He's all that and a bag of chips and he is the subject of this episode of what it takes from the Academy of Achievement.
1:17.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:19.0	Adam Aye, this child is gifted.
1:22.0	And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:25.0	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity and you don't take it, you may never have another child.
1:31.0	It all was so clear.
1:32.9	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
1:36.0	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth.
1:40.6	Darkness over light, death over life.
1:44.0	Every day I wake up and decide.
1:46.0	Today I'm going to love my life.
1:49.0	Decide.
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