"My first musical experience came out of the church. The feeling of the [church] music is what carried over to me and to my life."
-- Wycliffe Gordon
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Ebullient brass pride is in the house as our host welcomes the exceptional young trombonist Wycliffe Gordon to his Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center stage. The young man known by musicians as "Pine Cone," seems well on his way to upholding the rich, though somewhat thin, ranks of first rate jazz trombonists. Often misunderstood, snickered at because of its cumbersome girth and peculiar method of manipulation by a slide mechanism, the trombone does not have the depth of great players of its wind instrument brethren, notably saxophone and trumpet.
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Listen to Wycliffe talk about his piano-playing father.
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Listen to Wycliffe recall the first time he met Wynton Marsalis.
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Listen to Wycliffe talk about his early infatuation with Louis Armstrong's music.
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Listen to Wycliffe field a question from the audience regarding how he stayed focued while attending college at Florida A&M University.
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