the likes of duke ellington and ella fitzgerald. >> that's it for now. see you soon. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

trying to bring into being we know always going to greet us not about unanimity we go be like a duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody got they own voice and even duke is not the conductor he just one or two. yes there is good luck and. good luck experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. was so radicalizing searching for and continues to be surrounded by because it draws such a stark contrast up against what they're fighting and actually in their minds clarifies what they're up against more than somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for thanks to occupy wall street there is a lot of new ways of organizing which is not just calling people to participate in something you came up with but giving people the opportunity to create themselves and to be part of their in a regional brainstorming about what to do so that they feel empowered in this moment and it's also i think. finally put the kybosh on let's organize a rally on a saturday in washington d.c. when everything is closed and people come from around the country and sp

in the 1960s and '70s, afghanistan was a cultural hotbed, attracting the likes of jazz greats duke ellingtonl, and he has composed a beautiful piece. >> as an official in the minister of culture and information, 77-year-old faiz experienced kabul in its heyday with his wife and two children. >> our house was a place where all the artists, intellectuals from all over the world, would be welcomed and afghan counterparts would be invited to exchange ideas, to laugh. >> you had the salon of kabul. >> absolutely. >> but in 1978, faiz and his family fled the country after revolution and the soviet invasion. >> it saddens me that on the spot that i had built a stage for duke ellington to perform is that awful footage played all over the world of a woman being in the blue being executed. >> the soccer stadium once hosted presidents and dignitaries but became an arena for public executions. under the taliban. more recently soccer has returned but after more than 30 years of war and oppression, faiz says kabul is not what it once was. four years ago he went back and found his once palatial residence b

but that's all happening too, people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jack's tavern. that's another world that i was intrigued by and the fact that there were neisei jazz musicians. also the no no boys, which i'm not sure if you are aware of, but one of the story lines in the play is about the character called chet monkawa and he was what was known as a no no boy. at some point everyone in the internment camp was asked to do this questionnaire and there were two questions, question 27 and 28, which basically said you were foreswear allegiance to japan and the emperor and will swear allegiance to america and that you will serve in the armed forces. and for young neisei men in their late teens and 20's, if you signed that, by and large the sense was you could be drafted. and what came about was a certain amount of controversy over those two questions because a lot of things were floating around. one of the arguments, and that's my character, we're locked up. we're in prison and then i'm asked to

but another 20 years, we're going to produce our duke ellingtons, our own mary beardons, our james baldwinspeople of that stature in film. (jim jarmusch) for us in new york at the time, in the late seventies, it was an idea kind of related to the music scene at the time, which was that we are not virtuoso filmmakers, but we have something we'd like to express. and that desire to express it was more important than having a more professional attitude, or having a lot of experience. (jim jarmusch) when i started thinking about "stranger than paradise," there were severe limitations as far as how much money i could get to make a film like that. (jim stark) "stranger than paradise" cash cost was $160,000, and it grossed many times more than that. jim's pacing was very slow and deliberate. there was a kind of irony in how he approached the world, which was not typical of filmmaking. there's a meandering approach that lets you decide what you thought was important about the story. the style of the movie and the sensibility of it were clearly emanated from the personality of jim jarmusch but also h

that bothered him, though, because he figured that duke ellington should have been on that magazine covereck was also named a kennedy center honoree on his 89th birthday. >>> an iraqi veteran in maryland is going to have a brighter christmas, and get a sense of what it's like to be neighborly. jeff lopez, one of the last u.s. soldiers to return home from iraq, a crew began putting up holiday lights on every corner of his home today. a man in his community donated the decorations and the labor and sergeant lopez says it feels good. he feels appreciated. his wife says the lights will help make it a christmas to be remembered. >>> we matter on this sport scenes, don't we. >> you know, it's a big game when you're there. >> i wouldn't say that. but it did turn out well. >> did you have fun? >> oh, my god, that was huge. >> that was a fun game to watch. everybody noticed the wizards last night. all over the nba. and who do you think will be the key to victory? somebody who maybe isn't even on the team. as news4 at 6:00 continues. >>> time to drag the coats back out of your back seat or wherever

she studied at the duke ellington school for the arts and went on to study elsewhere. she debuted at the metropolitan opera house in new york in 1995. she has performed on four continents and song with all the greats in the industry. "the new york times" said this. "she has a classic voice with a wide range. from her low voice to her top notes, she is a compelling stage actress. if anything, she underestimates her charisma." the critic noted that his favorite moment was after her arrest, sitting on a table with her hands tied behind her back, she slowly lifted her skirt above her knees with her teeth. he wrote that from that moment, she had the audience enthralled. thank you both for being here. >> i have just had knee surgery. we were at the kennedy center honors. my husband said it will be difficult to lift your skirt with your teeth. >> i want to start with a question for both of you. was there one person who was your mentor role model and inspired you to be where you are now? >> i started off in the magazine industry. i cannot say i had a mentor early on. the perso

. >> he worked with parker and duke ellington.ilure one day before his 92nd birthday. >>> top of the hour here, i'm brooke baldwin. an urgent situation unfolding right now in egypt. we're getting word here that masked men have attacked the office headquarters of the muslim brotherhood as the protests grow increasingly violent. at the center of all of this, the egyptian president, mohamed morsi. we'll take you live to cairo in a matter of minutes. first, the fiscal cliff. the fiscal cliff sound bites, they are flying even if the actual negotiations are at a stand still. president obama says republicans, they're the ones that need to take the next step here. republicans say no way, ball's in your court, mr. president. >> we can probably solve this in about a week. it is not that tough. >> now we need a response from the white house. we can't sit here and negotiate with ourselves. now, the revenues we're put on the table are going to come from, guess who, the rich. >> if we can get the leadership on the republican side to take that f

it was in the 1950s he played black jazz clubs in the deep south, played with charlie parker, duke ellingtons, we understand from cnn entertainment, he was actually on his way to the hospital on wednesday, today, for regular exam. he was with his oldest son, and his son felt that something was wrong, called actually 911 from the car. brubeck was rushed to the emergency room. we are told that doctors could not keep his heart going. that he had heart failure and that he had passed away. brubeck lived in wilton, connecticut. he would have been 92 years old, and just some of the amazing things that he did in his career. he was able to set music to words of the old testament and as well as to the words of martin luther king injury. most recently took photographs of ansel adams, and let's just listen in. this is "take five." ♪ ♪ >> it was back on december 6, 2009, his legacy was celebrated at the kennedy center honors gala that they have, and they called -- what they called six decades of dazzling musical genius. truly a national and international treasure. dave brubeck has died. would have turned