I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.
Wynton MarsalisWhen I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.
Wynton MarsalisWhen I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in a philosophical context. All the great jazz musicians did, too. There was always a sub-context to what they were saying about music even though they would be very down home and earthy. So I started to develop, in addition to my power and ability to simply hear, a way to place myself in a time.
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