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'Live From Lincoln Center' , on PBS is broadcasting a superior Holiday Program entitled ' Red Hot Holiday Stomp ' hosted by Glen Close. Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz Ensemble treat us to their take on some traditional holiday music, teaming up with great guest performers.
Most amazing is a special collaboration of the ensemble with a Poetry performance written by Maya Angelou and accompanied by a fabulous Tap Dancer in relating the story of Black America from Africa to the present through the evolution of its stirring artistic heritage. The dancer succeded in telling me how he and his forbears got through their day, week , year and life with a passionate and dazzling vocabulary of footwork.