Some critics describe 49-year old Marsalis as “a living legend,” Others say he’s “America’s best jazz ambassador now”
Trumpeter and composer Miles Davis, the music explorer who revolutionized jazz, is even known by people who never heard his music.
Cairo native Diaa Bekheet has worked for a host of media outlets, including Radio Cairo in English, ETV News, Deutsche Presse-Agentur and the Associated Press. He joined VOA in Feb. 1989, hosting a variety of popular news and entertainment shows for the former Arabic Service such as Radio Ride Across America, Business Week, and Jazz Club USA. He has interviewed a number of Jazz celebrities, including the legendary Dizzy Gillespie. Diaa is currently an editor for our main English site, VOAnews.com.
