In a discussion with The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart, Wynton Marsalis discusses issues of race, Confederate statues, and the impact of rap music’s language that he feels damages community and culture. It’s something he explores to a degree in his new commissioned piece for Jazz at Lincoln Center, “the ever-funky lowdown”.

Source: Washington Post Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/05/22/jazz-musician-wynton-marsalis-says-rap-and-hip-hop-are-more-damaging-than-a-statue-of-robert-e-lee/