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How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Random House
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
208 pages
ISBN: 1400060788
EAN: 9781400060788
Hardcover
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"In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of Americaβs greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your lifeβfrom individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense." --Wynton Marsalis In this beautiful book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis explores jazz and how an understanding of it can lead to deeper, more original ways of being, living, and relatingβfor individuals, communities, and nations. Marsalis shows us how to listen to jazz, and through stories about his life and the lessons he has learned from other music greats, he reveals how the central ideas in jazz can influence the way people think and even how they behave with others, changing self, family, and community for the better. At the heart of jazz is the expression of personality and individuality, coupled with an ability to listen to and improvise with others. Jazz as an art--and as a way to move people and nations to higher ground--is at the core of this unique, illuminating, and inspiring book, a master class on jazz and life by a brilliant American artist.
 Media BuzzPBS News Hour - June 1, 2011
Talk of the Nation - September 2, 2008
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