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Pop artists like that theme, too. Do you listen to pop music? I don't listen to any music that has a backbeat on it. If I hear a drum going boom boom bap, boom boom bap, I don't listen to it. Never.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz Musician Wynton Marsalis | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Your dad was a jazz musician. Did he let you listen to your music or was it all jazz all the time? He was far too hip to be trying to tell you to turn some bulls___ off. As a matter of fact, my father was the one who encouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz Musician Wynton Marsalis | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Does the blues target African Americans? No. I don't think it targets any group. Like all art, it targets people. [Richard] Wagner wrote for Germans, but his music was universal. The blues speaks to the experience of the Afro-American people but it's not excluding anybody by doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz Musician Wynton Marsalis | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

China, critics will point out, doesn't produce (at least not yet) many Nobel Prize winners. But don't think the basic educational competence of the workforce isn't a key factor in its having become the manufacturing workshop of the world. It isn't just about cheap labor; it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

The women also have a deep-seated distrust of the government. Prostitutes complain that they are routinely shaken down by police, who demand $50 payoffs and threaten to lock them up overnight if they don't pay. Several prostitutes were suspicious that the new circuit was part of a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Mexico City Need a Red-Light District? | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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