. >> dickerson: while marsalis grieves, he is also responsible for jazz at lincoln center where henaofit has had to close its performance space and has lost millions of dollars. and marsalis says things are even harder for freelance musicians. >> marsalis: my father was a freelance musician. if this had happened when we were growing up, we would literally just have to go from house to house on our street and-- just to eat. this aalf of our musicians. >> dickerson: a man used to juggling projects-- he once contributed to this broadcast-- marsalis has been touching base with musicians around the world and trying to raise money for jazz at lincoln center and also for struggling artists. all of this returns him to the lessons of his father. so, if he taught you about philosophy as much as about music-- what would his advice be for this moment we are in, where we're sitting in an empty theater, we don't know when this is going to end, people are suffering. >> marsalis: you know, he would say, you know-- "where you at, man? what are you gonna do?" he said, "you talkin' about doin'? you doi