Wednesday, August 6, 2008

The Heroic Art of Wynton Marsalis By NNIC

Just listen to this and tell me what the difference is between Wynton Marsalis and “Ludacris” (below). Now consider that according to Wikipedia, Marsalis “has been awarded the 2005 National Medal of Arts of the United States, the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy and the Edison Award of the Netherlands, and was elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in Britain. He has received several honorary doctoral degrees, and a variety of other recognitions from Brandeis University, Brown University, Columbia University, Denison University, Haverford College, Johns Hopkins University, the Manhattan School of Music, New York University, Princeton University, the University of Miami, Southern Methodist University(SMU) and Yale University.”

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