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Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensem

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See: Gumbo - PBS - Ken Burns - JAZZ - episode 1 - full video JAZZ begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and mi

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See: bio New Orleans-born trumpeter, composer, and jazz educator Wynton Marsalis is an accomplished musician, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, and internationally acclaimed cultural icon. The son of New Orleans pianist and pioneering j

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“Whenever I discovered something which was noteworthy,

I have felt it my duty to put down what I had discovered,

in order that it would become known to the educated world.”

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Letter of June 12, 1716

… see: microscope

“Sharing knowledge is the the greatest of all callings.

There is nothing like it in the land".”

The Instruction of Dua-Khety

… to his son, as he entered scribe school c. 2000 BC, Egypt - Middle Kingdom

… see: seeing

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