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LAURA TINGLE, PRESENTER: Wynton Marsalis grew up in New Orleans, surrounded by his musical heroes and in a family that seemed to have jazz in its blood.LAURA TINGLE: A musical polymath, he studied classical.
Even though I didn't necessarily like the music they were playing, I always liked to hear the stories they would tell. Clark Terry played with Count Basie and Duke Ellington's orchestra; Sweets Edison played with the Count Basie orchestra. They left Kansas City in the '30s and Sonny Stead and so on and so forth. The list goes on and on. I was always around them and they're very colourful.
I didn't really know the bridge or section that well and I played it and she listened to it and she said, "Yeah baby, you played that good but you need to learn these songs thoroughly and off the recording." And then she went to the piano, and played and she played so much piano and at that time I didn't know her pedigree.
And the music, it requires education and for there to be a national attempt to educate the nation about the greatness of Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington, it goes so much against the role that black Americans at many times are required to play. And then we started to talk about Mongolian singing with the harmonics and we started talking about the bagpipes and the drone. And ending music in a drone that they use and releasing music in a drone.
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