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I believe every leader needs to tune him- or herself up like a musical instrument … to make music that connects people with a noble purpose.
Fred Kofman, The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership
Duke Ellington at 125
Skip Gates, Canons, and the Function of Criticism
The Roots and Fruits of American Art & Culture
Albert Murray on the Roots of American Studies
Brief Intro to the Blues Idiom Wisdom Tradition
Wayne Shorter: The Eternal Quest
Musical Gifts for 2023 & Beyond
E Pluribus Unum and the Omni-American Vision
Wynton Marsalis: The Music of America
Leadership and Jazz Culture
Jazz Master Tribute: Benny Golson (Part One)
Celebrating Albert Murray’s Centennial at the Schomburg: A Speech by Greg Thomas
Albert Murray in 1997: A Hero at Home in Harlem
Is Jazz a Model of Political Action?
Tony Bennett: The Gift of Life and Song
Can Civic Jazz Resolve Our American Dilemma?
Billy Strayhorn’s Four Moral Freedoms
Rooted Cosmopolitanism in a Decadent Time
Duke Ellington: The Quintessential Composer of the 20th Century?
Dizzy Gillespie’s Transnational Vision of Music
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