Wynton Marsalis : On 60 Minutes tonight (January 2, 2011) the show will feature jazz musician Wynton Marsalis and whistle blower Cheryl Eckard will be interviewed in a segment titled “Bad Medicine.”

(CBS) The other feature on 60 Minutes tonight is about jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Calling him “America’s Musical Ambassador,” Morley Safer follows Marsalis around the world on his tour. From London to Havana, Marsalis and his company bring jazz to people everywhere and the 60 Minutes cameras captured a lot of it.

We know that we’re here to serve,” says Marsalis to Safer while the band was in London. “Serve the music and to serve everyone who comes to check us out.”

Wynton Marsalis is the leader of the band but he's buried in the back row.

When you guys take the stage, you're never front and center," Safer pointed out.

I play fourth trumpet. I'm comfortable playin' in the trumpet section. I'm not a good conductor," Marsalis explained.

That meant 'Go get back in the trumpet section,'" Marsalis remembered.

And there Wynton Marsalis stays, storming his way through some of the most difficult, hair-raising music in the jazz repertoire.

It's powerful," Marsalis said.

"You've spent 30 years since you were a teenager in the music business. It was his old man, Ellis, a pianist, a New Orleans legend, who passed the jazz gene on to Wynton and three of his five brothers.

Wynton Marsalis himself, who has never married, has four children.

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