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A multi-million dollar cleanup of

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a one time American airbase in Vietnam which
was used to store the hide to talk to

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chemical agent orange this is v.o.a.

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News once again in Paris

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a Sunday morning cleanup that's because
thousands of yellow vests protesters again

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marched through the city on Saturday as
they tried to drive home their message to

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a government they say is ignoring the
poor police reported making more than 120

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arrests a.p.

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Correspondent Ben Thomas has more. Tear
gas hung in the air throughout the

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afternoon Saturday around the past the every
food leak in Paris radical protesters

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hurled paving stones and flares attacked
at least one boarded up shop and set fire

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to

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a few vehicles place for pitifully charged
in an effort to contain the crowd Associated

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Press reporters saw at least 2 journalists
injured in the melee Meanwhile

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a separate smaller crowd of yellow vests
marched peacefully toward the cordoned off

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neighborhood around not sure Dom they're
urging the French government not to forget

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the poor even as it gathers millions to
rebuild the fire damaged cathedral and Ben

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Thomas demonstrations also took place
yesterday in Bordeaux in Toulouse as well as

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other French cities this is the 23rd
consecutive weekend of yellow vest protests in

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Sudan authorities have arrested several
top members of the ruling party of ousted

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president Omar al Bashir it is seen as

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a move that could bolster the military junta
which is under mounting pressure from

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street demonstrators to hand power back to

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a civilian government in another part of

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a widening crackdown designed to remove
remnants of al Bashir as rule the so-called

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transitional military council said it will
retire all 8 lieutenant generals in the

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National Intelligence and Security Service
opposition groups admit that Sudan

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security agencies be restructured and
explosion has shaken the Libyan capital of

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Tripoli I witness to say they saw an
aircraft circling the capital before opening

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missile fire in a southern
suburb the raid apparently hit

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a military camp of forces. Loyal to the
central government which is now closed

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Tripoli's Medica International Airport the
rebel Libyan national army led by Cali

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for half tar began an offensive 2 weeks
ago but as so far been unable to breach

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Tripoli Southern defenses the
United Nations has call for

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a cease fire in Libya but Russia
on the United States have blocked

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a Security Council resolution this
weekend the White House said u.s.

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President Donald Trump has spoken by
telephone with talk to our recognizing what

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a statement called after our significant
role in fighting terrorism and securing

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Libya's oil resources
on April 22nd more than

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a 1000000000 people in 192 countries
are expected to take part in

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a global day if political and civic action
for the earth people will March plant

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trees clean up their city's parks and
waterways while corporations pledge to work

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toward sustainability hold

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a marker if day 2019 Gene
Randall the only news. This

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is Russ Davis welcoming you to another
hour of jazz America on v.o.a.

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One and this is

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a very special presentation as we take
you to Kennedy Center in Washington d.c.

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For the 2019 Jazz Masters.

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This year the n.e.a.

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Jazz Masters are Abdulla Abraham the great
keyboardist and composer vocalist and

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pianist Bob Doro Stanley Crouch
the Jazz advocate and Maria

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Schneider the award winning composer
bandleader and arranger and it's time for us

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to celebrate her before Year her thoughts
and the thoughts of others who've worked

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with her and music made by those in honor
of her Let's hear some of her award

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winning music in fact the music she's
made over the years has caused

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a huge national endowment for the arts to
say you Maria Schneider our jazz master

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Here's some of that award winning work the
Morea Schneider orchestra arbiters of

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evolution from the award winning album The
Thompson fields beginning this hour of

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v.o.a.

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Is jazz America. Illo

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. Live.

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live.

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Live let's

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look for. Clues.

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Ladies and gentlemen please welcome our
host Kennedy Center artistic director for

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jazz Jason Moran Maria Schneider's music
has been hailed by critics as evocative of

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majestic heart stopping the gorgeous known
for highly original and provocative big

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band compositions Maria's childhood piano
teacher ignited her collective love of

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music by introducing her to both classical
as dry piano they both classical. Were

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received her bachelor's degree and theory
and composition from the University of

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Minnesota and her master's degree in jazz
composition from the Eastman School of

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Music in Rochester New York upon graduation
she moved to New York City where she

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worked with 2 musical heroes and both in
the age as masters Bobrick Meyer and Gil

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of it was to hire her as

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a copyist and soon enlisted her as an
orchestral assistant Marie's unique voice

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quickly emerged when she started the Maria
Schneider Jazz Orchestra and she still

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works with many of those same musicians
today longstanding relationships that are

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brought her to intimately understand each
of their individual voices roots music is

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beyond categorization and
you'll hear that in just

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a few minutes with 2 very different
compositions to me music is an expression of

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a wife. And music is just how do I and
I am still expressing things from my

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childhood because to me there
was so much magic there.

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Ladies and gentlemen please welcome memory
is long time collaborators Frank Kimbo

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Jay Anderson and Scott Robinson. Thank.

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I've.

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Asked

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a guest star players that is the
Mario Schneider composition Charo

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done Kauto performed live at the
Kennedy Center for the n.e.a.

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Jazz Masters celebrate Tory concert
and induction Now let's hear from

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Maria Schneider herself she gave us her
thoughts about winning this wonderful award

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and we'll follow that with one of her
good friends singing another of her songs

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titled walking by flashlight.
Ladies and gentlemen

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2090 n.e.a.

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Jazz Master Marie Snyder.

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You guys thank you so much so beautiful
how lucky I am. I recently heard an

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impressive interview with the leading
national scholar on educational justice Dr

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David Kirkland he speaks of the power of
dreams to lift children to their highest

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potential and inversely tells of the
negative effect of depriving young people of

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dreams feeling so much gratitude
for this honor from the n.e.a.

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And then hearing Dr Kirkland speak it
got me thinking of how my interests and

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dreams have been supported how this
happened because of many many people along

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the way I went to nursery school Wednesday
mornings and I loved my teacher Mrs

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Celine one summer night she called my mom
to tell her of hundreds of fireflies

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flying in her yard she invited mom to bring
me because she knew I'd love to see it

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not only with the fireflies magical but
also being personally invited by Mrs Celine

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to take in such a site and with
my piano teacher Mrs Butler

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a key moment came early with appreciatively
called Jump in Jupiter. Analyzing the

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chorus as we always do the last
chord presented a dominant 7th with

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a strange note on top that I cringed at
and she said quickly she said Oh Maria

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that's

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a sharp 11 and someday that's
going to be your favorite. For

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those of you that don't
know those sharp 11 being

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a defining know in jazz her statement
enthusiastically projected

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a future for me that I ventured to follow
these much older people helped me as

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a child back project various possible
futures all filled with things that I

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loved and then college with only a
flicker of a private dream of being

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a composer. It was

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a student teaching assistant Susan
Anderson who stopped me after hearing

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a theory exercise I had composed and that
was played in class to suggest that I

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consider composition as a major
that simple validation from

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a grad student sat me on this lifelong
path I wonder how many heartfelt

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dreams out there never see
the light of day the n.e.a.

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Website has a very moving interview I
heard you all to look at with n.e.a.

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Jazz Master George Benson about how his
stepfather encouraged him George wanted to

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play guitar but his little hands were too
small and having little money as step

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father found

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a broken ukulele in the trash glued it
together gave it to George as its 1st

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instrument a couple years
later he bought George

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a guitar for $15.00 at their
local pawn shop and as

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a teenager when George desperately wanted
to play electric guitar but the pawn

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shops were too expensive his stepfather's
solution was to say I could make that.

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George drew the shape you wanted on brown
paper and his stuff father sought it out

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from the wooden cover of
George's Mother's Hope Chest.

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I hope as you all leave tonight you'll
reflect on those that shaped you and try to

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find ways to be that person for some child
or young adult most especially and.

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Surely someday years after your gone that
adult will look back and say on that day

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that person changed my life.

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Thank. You to full

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inspiring thoughts from n.e.a.

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Jazz master Maria Schneider the live
performances have been from all star players

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who came to Kennedy Center to
celebrate those artists including

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a very famous singer who will sing for
us right now on jazz America from v.o.a.

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One. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome
Maria Schneider's dear friend and Kennedy

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Center artistic advisor at large they let
me 1st want to thank my friend Maria for

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not knowing about. I 1st heard this song
cycle with Chamber Orchestra beautiful

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Dawn Upshaw and couldn't believe it because
it was simply so beautiful that you

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said something that's poetry and that you
care about nature that you care about the

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plains and eventually got. Into Central
Park at 8 o'clock in the morning more than

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once to go birding That's
extraordinary. Walking by flashing.

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In the mall.

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Close.

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To.

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Getting.

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To Sleep.

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With the end goal.

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To.

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Speak. To wold. See.

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The.

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Theory of Schneider
and. Newly named n.e.a.

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Jazz master has friends in many
different musical places including

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a lady known for doing wonderful operatic
singing as you just heard Renee Fleming

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turning to her jazzy side the jazzy side
of the music of her friend and her version

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of one of the classic songs written by
Maria Schneider will return to Kennedy

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Center for more live music
in celebration of the n.e.a.

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Jazz Masters but 1st I want to invite
you to send me an email if you have

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a question

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a comment or maybe request for music whatever
the case may be I'd love to hear from

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you and here is the email address to which
you can write me I'll give it to you

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twice so write it down and get
in touch it's jazz America at v

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a News dot com Betts jazz America
the 2 words written as one word

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at that's the at sign v o a a and e. W.

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As dot com jazz America at v.o.a.

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News dot com Then here's

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a message which resists follows Hi
My name is donkey in Akara gonna The

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time here is 0820 hours and I am
enjoying your program kindly play what

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a wonderful world by Satchmo
for me Greetings Thank you.

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Donkey will thank you so much for your
request I would be pleased honored

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to play this classic song for you ladies
and gentlemen recorded live at the

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Elizabeth Ville concert in
November of 1960 during the grand

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Louis Armstrong to lure of Africa which was
put together by the us government State

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Department in Washington here is it's

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a wonderful world on jazz America. Has

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seen 3.

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Of me in. And add to my south.

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And one.

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And not.

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Carlos something. So pretty in the sky.

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a Scot. I know what's. Smooth

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It is sad to say. Hello to.

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You. To.

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Most of us listening to and enjoying jazz
America with the one and only Russ Davis

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and original on the force of America.

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That's from our stack of new and
notable and that may have sounded like

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a classic song recorded many years ago
but it's brand new it was composed by

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a great n.e.a.

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Jazz master in his own right wends in
Marseilles he is the musical director at Jack

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. As at Lincoln Center
and one of the gentleman

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a good friend of his that helped start
Jazz at Lincoln Center right in the center

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of New York City is n.e.a.

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Jazz master writer critic and general
jazz advocate Stanley Crouch he's been

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a longtime friend of the entire Marsalis
family all of which were inducted as in

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a Jazz Masters just a few
years ago and that is

00:35:57
a brand new composition from the
soundtrack of the Motion Picture bold and

00:36:03
a film coming out soon that celebrates the
great Buddy Bolden one of the original

00:36:09
jazz men from New Orleans just like when
10 Now let's head back to the Kennedy

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Center in Washington d.c.

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And celebrate Mr Crouch and hear some music
by some great musicians in honor of him

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each year the arts and dominant recognizes
one highly deserving individual with the

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a.b. Spellman n.e.a.

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Jazz Masters award for jazz advocacy
this award was named after a.b.

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Spellman a true response man who was left
quite an imprint on jazz as a writer as

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a poet and also as Deputy Chairman of the
National Endowment for the Arts. The

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recipient of the 2092 a.b.

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Spellman in the jazz master's award
for jazz advocacy Stanley Crouch.

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Is recovering from an illness is unable
to be here with us this evening. Please

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welcome Stanleys longtime friends Charles
MacPherson David Murray and Christian

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McBride.

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the as.

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Such. A

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good good.

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So great 2019 National Endowment for the
Arts Jazz Masters many things to Marion

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Carter from the National Endowment for
the Arts thank Deborah Rutter and the

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Kennedy Center last but not least thanks
to all of you for watching and tweeting

00:49:20
online and here's the 2090 class
of jazz classes and their families

00:49:28
thank.

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And at that point all of those recipients
of this great honor and their families

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took the stage for one last bow in front
of the raging audience that had so much

00:49:48
fun I among them well
that brought the n.e.a.

00:49:52
Jazz Masters celebration the
concert in the induction to

00:49:56
a close but this program has not come to

00:49:59
a close yet I've got one more live performance
to play for you and I'll tell you

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what this song is who is making the music
and why I'm playing it for you after we

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hear it right now on
jazz America from v.o.a.

00:50:13
One I said I wasn't I mean people don't
think this is that it was the bridge at the

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same thing all the my they saw.

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Her. Plenty.

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Plenty.

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Plenty.

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The are good.

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Please. Please.

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Please please.

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Please. Please.

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Please. Please. Please.

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Please.

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Please. Please.

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Explain.

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Please.

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Well you heard the introduction and that
was the legendary Herbie Hancock the rare

00:57:17
live recording of his classic chameleon
recorded in 2004 at an international event

00:57:23
in Rome called folk we are the future
concert since then he's become possibly the

00:57:30
premier ad. Good for jazz in the world
and once again this year this time in

00:57:35
Melbourne Australia he will be the
director of the concert that celebrates

00:57:41
International Jazz Day on the 30th of
April host of musicians from all over the

00:57:47
world will join him and we'll celebrate
then on the next jazz American join me

00:57:52
won't you.

00:58:03
This is v.o.a.

00:58:04
News I'm Gene Randall the island nation
of Sri Lanka was brutally torn from

00:58:08
a comedy Easter Sunday when bombs went
off at 3 churches and 3 hotels the death

00:58:13
toll now tops 200 with hundreds more
wounded 7 people are said to be in police

00:58:18
custody for questioning we got

00:58:20
a report from Grace Lee of Reuters some
of those buildings were in the capital of

00:58:24
Colombo and according to police

00:58:26
a total of 3 churches and 3 hotels have
been hit including the Shangri-La footage

00:58:31
from local media show damage from the blasts
inside one of the churches along with

00:58:36
ambulances driving away with the injured
Colombo National Hospital said that

00:58:40
several wounded people were brought in
for treatment and sources from 2 leading

00:58:44
tourist hotels in Colombo also confirmed
the explosions but didn't give any details

00:58:50
there were no immediate claims of responsibility
that was graciously of Reuters The

00:58:55
Sri Lankan government has imposed

00:58:56
a curfew and says it's blocked access to
major social media and messaging apps to

00:59:01
prevent the spread of misinformation and
rumors world leaders have been quick to

00:59:04
condemn the bloodletting British prime
minister Theresa May tweeted the acts of

00:59:08
violence against churches and hotels in
Sri Lanka are truly appalling and my

00:59:13
deepest sympathies go out to all of those
affected at this tragic time she went on

00:59:18
we must stand together to make sure that
no one should ever have to practice their

00:59:21
faith in fear but as carnage is
sure to bring back memories of

00:59:25
a 3 decade long civil war between Sri
Lanka's ruling Sinhalese Buddhist majority

00:59:30
and Tamil separatist. It's based mainly in
the north and east of the country those

00:59:34
years were marked by atrocities committed
by both sides in Sudan authorities have

00:59:38
arrested several top members of the ruling
party of ousted president Omar al Bashir

00:59:43
it is seen as

00:59:44
a move that could bolster the military junta
which is under mounting pressure from

00:59:48
street demonstrators to hand power back to

00:59:50
a civilian government in another part of

00:59:52
a widening crackdown designed to remove
remnants of al Bashir is rule they

00:59:56
transitional military council said it will
retire all 8 lieutenant generals in the

01:00:00
National Intelligence and
Security Service this is v.o.a.

01:00:03
News Pope Francis is urging people to avoid
seeking the meaning of life in things

01:00:08
that pass away he asks why not prefer
Jesus of the true light to the glitter of

01:00:13
wealth career pride and pleasure the
pontiff today also condemned the terror

01:00:18
attacks in Sri Lanka on rebels in the
Democratic Republic of Congo attacked an

01:00:22
Ebola treatment facility Saturday near
the city of it happened just hours after

01:00:27
another attack at the center killed

01:00:29
a camera an epidemiologist police officials
say one militia member was killed 4

01:00:34
others were wounded in the 2nd attack at
the consul hospital where medical staffers

01:00:38
are trying to contain any bold outbreak
in eastern part of that he our city.

01:00:43
Egypt's sions are voting this weekend on
constitutional amendments that would allow

01:00:47
President Abdullah Fattah el-Sisi to
stay in office until 2030 at the Uranian

01:00:52
reports for v.o.a. From Cairo

01:00:55
a smiling president of the Fatah al Sisi
cast his ballot as polling began Saturday

01:01:00
morning in

01:01:01
a 3 day referendum to make changes to
Egypt post revolution Constitution those

01:01:08
changes will strengthen his hand over parts
of the government and lengthen his term

01:01:13
in office from 4 to 6 years 62000000
Egyptians are registered to vote of

01:01:20
an estimated population
of around 100000000

01:01:24
a large number of people could be seen at
several polling stations in the center of

01:01:29
Cairo while others in outlying parts of
the capital and Giza appeared to have

01:01:34
a light turnout Edwards
your rainy and for a v.o.a.

01:01:38
News Cairo critics of the proposed
constitutional changes called this weekend's

01:01:42
voting a power grab by El Sisi
the United States has begun

01:01:47
a multi-million dollar cleanup of

01:01:48
a one time American air base in Vietnam
which was used to store the highly to.

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