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"In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America's greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life--from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense."--Wynton MarsalisIn this beautiful book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis explores jazz and how an understanding of it can lead to deeper, more original ways of being, living, and relating--for individuals, communities, and nations. Marsalis shows us how to listen to jazz, and through stories about his life and the lessons he has learned from other music greats, he reveals how the central ideas in jazz can influence the way people think and even how they behave with others, changing self, family, and community for the better. At the heart of jazz is the expression of personality and individuality, coupled with an ability to listen to and improvise with others. Jazz as an art--and as a way to move people and nations to higher ground--is at the co

Who reads Moving to Higher Ground : How Jazz Can Change Your Life?

Author

Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey C. Ward

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588368119

Category

music

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Music

Rating

3.95 / 5 (216 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14