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Grammy Award winning jazz musician WYNTON MARSALIS. He's been playing the trumpet since he was six, and won his first Grammy at 20. His albums include "The Majesty of the Blues," "Thick in the South," and "Citi Movement," with the Wynton Marsalis Septet. MARSALIS is also the cofounder and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He recently announced that he is breaking up the Septet so he can spend more time with the Lincoln Center. "Sweet Swing Blues on the Road" (W.W. Norton & Company), is his new book, written in collaboration with photographer Frank Stewart. The book, in MARSALIS's words, "tries to document as my fellow musicians and I have lived it."

2: Author DORIS GRUMBACH has written a second memoir, which picks up where her first, "Coming into the End Zone," left off. "Extra Innings: A Memoir" (W.W. Norton) begins with her feelings about the release of the first memoir, and chronicles her life in Maine, her travels, and coming to terms with mortality. GRUMBACH is a book reviewer for National Public Radio, and was literary editor for "The New Republic."

2: Grammy Award winning jazz musician WYNTON MARSALIS. He's been playing the trumpet since he was six, and won his first Grammy at 20. His albums include "The Majesty of the Blues," "Thick in the South," and "Citi Movement," with the Wynton Marsalis Septet. MARSALIS is also the co-founder and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He recently broke up the Septet so he could spend more time with the Lincoln Center. "Sweet Swing Blues on the Road" (W.W. Norton & Company), is his recent book, written in collaboration with photographer Frank Stewart. MARSALIS has a new four-part PBS series, "Marsalis on Music" which debuted this week. (REBROADCAST from 12

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