Wynton Marsalis is a renoun trumpter and composer who is now the artistic director of Jazz at the Linclon Center.
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Wynton at Harvard - YouTube Playlist
This is the playlist Wynton Marsalis’s 25-part Harvard University lecture series, hosted by Jazz at the Lincoln Center covering a range of topics including jazz, what it means to be American, and the importance of cultural literacy and the arts in the liberal arts education.
This is a great lecture series to learn about jazz music for swing dancers.