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Marian McPhartland - A National Treasure

Marian McPhartland is in my opinion a national treasure,and as she now approaches her 90th birthday I think she should be acknowledged as one of the driving forces in jazz of the past century. Her NPR radio program is the longest running on NPR ever. As a jazz pianist she has few peers indeed. Someone once said about her. That she had three strikes against her,before she even got to bat and that was she's white, she's British and she's a woman. But with that being said she has managed to carve out an enviable career approached by few.

Shall we honor her now?
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grimace
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Being English, whose national treasure is she? She gets huge points for being alowed to participate in the photo, "A great Day in Harlem." I think she's running out of great jazz performers to interview and play with on her show though.

About a year ago she had some fellow on and all he wanted to do was ask her questions about playing Duke and Bird. She was having trouble getting to talk about his music.
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