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I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

Wynton Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
Bandleader
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Jazz Musician
Trumpeter
New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
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