Alvin Atkinson, Jr, presented a jazz master class at the Dessaix Baptiste school in Jacmel, Haiti, in January of 2009. Raphael, a street kid who saw his parents shot to death in front of him by Duvalier's nazis in Port-au-Prince, had never played a musical instrument before, though we had been encouraging him to attend concerts and rehearsals at the school since summer of 08. As you can see, he's playing the whole set---every teacher in the room was weeping, every kid was cheering.
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