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Grammy Award winning jazz musician WYNTON MARSALIS

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Wynton Marsalis has been playing the trumpet since age six.
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Wynton Marsalis won his first Grammy at age twenty.
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Wynton Marsalis has a new four-part PBS series.
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2: Grammy Award winning jazz musician WYNTON MARSALIS. He's been playing the trumpet since he was six, and won his first Grammy at 20. His albums include "The Majesty of the Blues," "Thick in the South," and "Citi Movement," with the Wynton Marsalis Septet. MARSALIS is also the co-founder and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He recently broke up the Septet so he could spend more time with the Lincoln Center. "Sweet Swing Blues on the Road" (W.W. Norton & Company), is his recent book, written in collaboration with photographer Frank Stewart. MARSALIS has a new four-part PBS series, "Marsalis on Music" which debuted this week. (REBROADCAST from 12

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