still ahead, jad legend wynton marsalis and some of the best young jazz musicians with lots to teach evening. michael sam has been drafted by the st. louis rams becoming the first openly gay player ever to be drafted by an nfl team. sam a star defensive end for the university of missouri came out publicly in february but has since said he wants to be known as an athlete, not as a gay athlete. michael sam was picked in the seventh round of the nfl draft. and we close tonight with a look at a master class. for the last three days right here in new york, the best high school jazz ensembles in the country getting the kind of construction they could only imagine if it wasn't happening. it was the instructor himself that made them benefiting most of all. >> reporter: the event is called essentially ellington. essentially speaking there's only one winner watching, critiquing and teaching, everyone walks away with a prize. >> we're not going to say this is fantastic or not because we want you to become the best you can be. >> wynton marsalis an american treasure is the lead mentor here. >> f

i just recorded with wynton and other per -- fabulous performers. holiday tunes. non-classical. style of singing. tavis: i have had many conversations about this notion s wanting tor genre box artists and. -- in. this notion of a purism. they can be jazz purists. they can be opera purists. they want to box you when. -- in. critics will move you. you do not seem to be one of those artists. you have navigated that minefield well. what do you make of how you have been able to do that and not have people disdain you? ago, we did ade carefully. there was tremendous risk associated. everything is generational. we see changes happening so quick to the and life -- quickly in life. i am finding a younger performer who is throwing things away. they are in a club with a leather jacket on. anything goes. whatever they want to explore. as long as there is quality and an audience for it, it is fine. i found that, even with myself, it is much easier now and i do not worry about it as much as i used to. tavis: you said it is good for the artist to be allowed to do it, so long as they do it well

wynton marsalis is here to introduce us to one dancer that did that.ded a style and grace all its own. he's taking it from the streets to the world stage. ♪ when charles buck riley performs, it's as if he's gliding on water, defieing gravity. ♪ this is his dance. he's been called the parishioner of it. jookin is a free-style dance. it's influenced by your imagination. >> reporter: recently, buck, as he's known has been wowing audiences across the globe. he's performed with madonna at the super bowl, in gap ads, music videos. and as a member of cirque du soleil's biggest show, michael jackson. but his soaring career has humble roots. he learned to jook on the streets of memphis, where the dance was born. in just five years was entertaining crowds on the streets of l.a. to make ends meet. >> i don't want to be in a dance studio with a bunch of mirrors. we love the whole organic feel of the dance. i believe that's what made it what it was. it was really organic, you know? >> reporter: give me a good rhythm. like many dancers, jookin is defined by fundamen

. >> reporter: jazz great and cbs cultural correspondent wynton marsalis worked with angelou in 2003. >> that type of intellectual power with that type of soul and feeling, with the type of fire and the type of gentle gratitude is a rare combination. >> reporter: angelou her poem "on the pulse of mourning" at president bill clinton's inauguration. >> the rock cries out to us clearly, forcefully, come. you may stand up on my back and face your distant destiny. >> reporter: in 2010, president barack obama awarded her the presidential medal of freedom. ( applause ) her final message posted five days ago on twitter read, "listen to yourself and in that quietude, you might hear the voice of god." >> i am the hope and the dream of the slave and soul. there i go. >> reporter: michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> o'donnell: my "cbs this morning" colleague gayle king was a personal friend of maya angelou. i know you knew her for nearly three decades. what will you miss most? >> yes, i do, i do, i do. we have been thinking about it a lot today, those of us who know her and love her. and i wi

>> wynton is an icon and talks about gratitude. he was a student himself, he's just a class act.t show he would pull out the trumpet and play music in between as he was talking. it was the farewell to tulane president who rebuilt after hurricane katrina, really lch from scratch, the combo of him and marsalis was a winner. it's worth watching online the whole thing. >> npr came out with his f its list of the greatest speeches of all time. which brings me to the question to both of you of what your all time favorites are, jonathan, we asked what the favorite speech ever was of a journalist. what's your answer? >> i guess maybe one i heard years ago, the late david hall ver stam gave which did a supererb job of summing up our business. george saunders of syracuse. >> recent speech, right? >> they just turned it into a good. the theme of that speech is kindness -- >> we've got sound from that speech. take a listen to george saunders in 2013. >> most of my life of failures of kindness, those moments when another human being was right there in front of me suffering and i responded sens