Jazz artist improvises with students, debuts piece

Posted 11/19/07

COLUMBIA (AP) – Jazz great Marian McPartland needs a helping hand to walk on stage, but something magical happens when she sits at the keyboard to improvise with music students one-quarter her age.

"I can't walk. I'm in miserable pain. But at …

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