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World-renowned trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and leading advocate of American culture. Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center

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Ellis Marsalis, 1934 - 2020 He went out the way he lived: embracing reality
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My daddy was a humble man with a lyrical sound that captured the spirit of place--New Orleans, the Crescent City, The Big Easy, the Curve. He was a stone-cold believer without extravagant tastes...
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An important cog in the ever turning wheel of universal humanism has passed through leaving all he touched better than it was before. He was and will always be: purveyor of pentatonic perfection; master of blues inflected melodies; hero of vertical and horizontal harmonic…
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I had the honor of playing on #MisterRogers ’ show in 1986. Never before have I interacted with a staff that was as fired up about their boss. And they weren’t at all exaggerating. Today, he is being honored with a Doodle @GoogleDoodles #workingwithgoogle
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Returning to the home of the iconic Louis Armstrong to share his tunes and memories with @espn
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Todd Stoll, Marcus Printup and Kenny Rampton challenged me to the “West End Blues Challenge”! Louis Armstrong is still taking care of us
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Enjoy a full clip of The Wynton Marsalis Quintet performing "Winter Wonderland", with special guest my daughter Oni on vocals. Happy Holidays season!
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Our Second Line to honor Roy Hargrove tonight at @jazzdotorg
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It was a great honor to accept the 2023 Praemium Imperiale from Her Imperial Highness Princess Hitachi in Tokyo yesterday
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Chick in Marciac 2019 at 3 am, after playing his own 1-1/2 hour set and sitting through our 1-1/2, he agrees to come up on our bandstand for the encore, says he would rather accompany than solo, plays the hell out of a tune he doesn’t know...
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Absolute and thorough soul through and through. Not just the Queen of song, Ms. Franklin was a fount of great stories delivered with downhome wit, intelligence and incredible insight. The soul quotient in the world is lower today. #ArethaFranklin
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Playing “Buddy Bolden Blues” with Victor Goines backstage at @artscentremelb before tonight’s “All Rise” performance with @jazzdotorg Orchestra and @MelbSymphony conducted by @BenNorthey
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In celebration of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden’s 146th birthday, @boldenmovie wants to honor his legacy with a series of unreleased Director’s Cut. Directed by Dan Pritzker, with music by Wynton Marsalis. Stream BOLDEN now on Prime Video, Apple TV and more…
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The great Ryan Kisor playing lip slurs 🎺 before tonight’s concert with @jazzdotorg Orchestra at Sydney Opera House
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Our Carlos Henriquez warming-up and having fun before the second and last show with @jazzdotorg Orchestra at Snow Concert Hall in Canberra 🇦🇺
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Second line at Harry Belafonte “A Celebration of Life” on “Just a Closer Walk With Thee” and “Oh, Didn’t He Ramble”... Last night at The @RiversideNYC Video courtesy of @rolandsmartin and @BlkStarNetwork YouTube channels
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Rehearsing “The Magic Hour” 🎺 🥁 for tonight’s concert at Olympic Park in Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷
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…working on my Trumpet Concerto in Canberra 🇦🇺
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Last night I joined @RealTimers with @BillMaher to discuss the intersection of #jazz and #politics . Check out an excerpt from the episode
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Our great Juilliard trumpet section! Playing this swing version of the Abblasen after seeing it a few minutes before. Not just great players, but great musicians and soulful people. It's a joy to know them and hear them play and learn about the world from their perspective. Love!
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Our second night in Tokyo… I stood outside, greeting the fans that had waited to see me, and I saw their faces filled with joy. I’m blessed and thankful
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Check out the extended version of my interview for @ABCaustralia 7.30
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I am humbled to have been given the Key to the City of New York. Thank you to @NYCMayor @BillDeBlasio (and to board member Stephen R. Aiello) for the honor
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To the Gods of trumpet players and of trumpet playing: thank you for all you have allowed me to experience through our instrument. All of these salutations have made me get my Arban book out today. Love and thanks to you, and I hope to see you somewhere in the world very soon.
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Sound checking “The Asian Blues”, written by Carlos Henriquez, for tonight’s concert at Shinjuku Bunka Centre in Tokyo 🇯🇵
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Thank you to the city of @guanajuato for the warm welcome. We look forward to the @jazzdotorg 's Jazz For Young People concert today and our performance this evening. Honored to be part of the @cervantino 50th anniversary events!
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6am on our day off. When music is due, the daily schedule is easy
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Jam session last night with students at @BOZARbrussels Victor Cafe
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Marcus Printup and Ted Nash workin’ on Charlie Parker’s “Chi-Chi” before @jazzdotorg Orchestra’s concert at @QPAC in Brisbane
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Our alto saxophone Sherman Irby on Charlie Parker’s “Chi-Chi” before @jazzdotorg Orchestra’s “Jazz for Young People” concert at @QPAC
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The very end of however many gigs we played in however many days. We are still out here trying to swing.
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The @jazzdotorg and @CamilleThurman 🎷 soloing on “Lady Be Good” at soundcheck in Guangzhou
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The Septet sound checking on “All The Things You Are” for tonight’s concert at Festival Hall in Osaka 🇯🇵
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It was great to have a conversation with Thomas Ellenson and support the Cerebral Palsy Foundation @yourcpf
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On my way to Press Conference with Mariana Aymerich in Guanajuato, Mexico for Festival @cervantino
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The spirit of jazz is a powerful thing. Night before last, we had the pleasure of playing in Szczecin, Poland. (Shh-CHECH-in) Our man, saxophonist, composer organizer and cultural force, Sylwester Ostrowski and his wife Anna are presenting us. They are here doing it all:…
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"Louis Armstrong was embraced by the world. All people, races... he didn't like to segregate himself from people, of any kind. From THE people! He was a humanist." Check my full piece for @USOPEN by @ESPN filmed at @ArmstrongHouse
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On January 2009, The Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor and I filmed short clips discussing the relationship between the U.S. government and jazz music. The result was broadcast on Martin Luther King Day during Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Let Freedom Swing!” concert in Washington D.C.,…
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Sherman Irby, lead alto sax 🎷 of the @jazzdotorg Orchestra, warming up playing the blues before our concert at Shanghai Oriental Arts Center
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In rehearsal with my brother @bmarsalis , Victor, Dan, Carlos and Obed for tonight’s first Gala performance at @JazzStLouis
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A young percussionist approached for a quick chat backstage prior to my talk in Rotterdam today. I invited him to join me on stage for an impromptu performance during the conclusion of the Q&A segment post-lecture @NexusInstituut
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Our piano player, @dannimmer warming up on Duke Ellington “Satin Doll” before tonight’s show at @chicagosymphony
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Soloing on Duke Ellington's "Toot Suite: Red Garter" during tonight's concert at @QPAC in Brisbane
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Out today on what would have been Satchmo's 122nd birthday, it's “Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens”! Recorded live in Rose Theater in 2006, this new digital-only @bluenoterecords release assembles my longtime collaborators including trombonist Wycliffe…
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#tbt from the archives: Teaching the “Second Line” at Teboho Trust School in Soweto, South Africa (August 28, 2011)
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Behind the scenes at Suntory Hall in Tokyo… our drummer Obed Calvaire warming up with the ritual he learned from Kenwood Dennard
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A man of intelligence, humor and grace. A man with a big big heart. A trumpeter for humanity and a believer in our ascendancy through collective creativity. (I hope he doesn’t play the trumpet for the archangel Gabrielle) #KofiAnnan
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“In a world of diversity where often values clash, music leaps across language barriers and unites people of quite different cultural backgrounds. And so, through music, all peoples can come together to make the world a more harmonious place” Kofi Annan. @wyntonmarsalis
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Marion Felder playing two bars in 6/8 and one bar in 5/8 and Carlos Henriquez playing the Nañigo pattern with a butter knife. Dan & Walter add their taste of rhythm throughout the groove... the @jazzdotorg Orchestra warming up at Victoria Hall in Geneva, Switzerland
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It’s always a great pleasure and an honor to meet young students backstage and to answer their questions. (Behind the scenes at @chicagosymphony Hall)
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Save it for the gig, dad :)
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My quintet featuring my brother @bmarsalis and my father Ellis Marsalis Jr. In rehearsal for our upcoming concert at @Jazz_in_Marciac 2018. Don’t miss @Livestream and FB Live on July 31
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Thank you so much to the incredibly talented @alisonbalsom , to all the wonderful musicians of the @londonsymphony , and to the esteemed Maestro Antonio Pappano for their unforgettable performance tonight at @BarbicanCentre
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Sound checking “Stardust” with @JasonMarsalis , Dan Nimmer and @MarkLBass . Tonight we perform a benefit concert for Clarence Adoo at @BarbicanCentre
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Giving a trumpet lesson to a young musician backstage after our concert at @BarbicanCentre
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Dan Nimmer, Kengo Nakamura, Obed Calvaire and Chris Lewis jamming on Willard Robison’s “Old Folks” before the Septet’s show at Shinjuku Bunka Center
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Serenading Mica Ertegun with “Stardust” accompanied by Gabe Schnider at @NYRP #HulaweenInTheCosmos #hulaween2018 #nyrphulaween
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It is with great honor and respect that I accept the 2023 Praemium Imperiale for Music by the Government of Japan in conjunction with the Japan Art Association. The live event announcing this year’s honorees is being hosted today by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at the White House…
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Just as many in the continuum of our music poured information and aspirations into him, Roy Hargrove gave selflessly to others, particularly to young musicians. He did everything he could to ensure that the circle would not be broken...
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Carlos Henriquez disarming his bass after the show with Septet at Festival Hall in Osaka 🇯🇵
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The Wynton Marsalis Septet playing "Winter Wonderland" for BET Special Christmas. Filmed on November 17, 1993 at BET Studios in Washington, D.C. Wynton Marsalis, trumpet Wycliffe Gordon, trombone Victor Goines, tenor sax and clarinet Wess 'Warmdaddy' Anderson, alto sax Reginald…
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implications, giant of saxophone regardless of register; improviser extraordinaire in any and all musical environments; mercurial wit and biting humorist with uncommon humility and depth of understanding, seer, reader, and interpreter of ancient and modern myth…jazz messenger.
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We keep swinging… King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (1923) Wynton Marsalis Septet (2023) 📷2023: Luigi Beverelli
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Check out the Septet playing "What Have You Done?" from the new album: United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas
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Today I taught my first two classes at @jazzdotorg Summer Jazz Academy 2020: "Listening Class" and "Jazz Language". Check out the next FREE lessons and full schedule on
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We just arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo
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Our @camillethurman and Sherman Irby sound checking “Stardust” for tonight’s concert with the @jazzdotorg Orchestra in Shenzhen
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This is another installment of the Kisor warm-up routines. Just a small part of what he does to keep our horns in the case before gigs...
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Soloing on “The Struggle To Become Aware” (from: Integrity Suite) at rehearsal for tomorrow’s concert at @Jazz_in_Marciac . Watch live webcast on FB Live starting August 3 at 11pm CEST
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Happy birthday 🎂 to Paul Nedzela, @jazzdotorg Orchestra’s baritone sax player, backstage tonight in Guangzhou
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Soloing on “Cherokee”… last night’s performance with the @jazzdotorg Orchestra at Sala Capitol in Timișoara
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This morning I conducted a master class for the fantastic students of Rikkyo High School Jazz Band in Tokyo
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Checking my parts before going on stage at @chicagosymphony . The @jazzdotorg Orchestra is going to play “The Music of Duke Ellington”
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Working on the orchestration of my Trumpet Concerto on the train to Kaohsiung City, 🇹🇼
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Soloing on “Point/Counterpoint” at rehearsal for tomorrow’s concert at @Jazz_in_Marciac @Livestream
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Celebrating Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 70th birthday 🎉🎺 at Dizzy's Club @kaj33
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Check out the song: "Red Hot Mammas" from the @Boldenmovie Original Soundtrack
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The @jazzdotorg Orchestra groovin’ on the bus heading to our hotel in Shenzhen w/ Earth Wind and Fire’s “Serpentine Fire”
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Talking to the @verbierfestival Orchestra about the third movement of my Trumpet Concerto. In rehearsal with Håkan Hardenberger on the trumpet and maestro Christoph Eschenbach
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The trombone section of @jazzdotorg Orchestra ( @ChrittyCren @ElliotMason and Dion Trucker) rehearsing the melody of Horace Silver’s “Señor Blues” at @sescguarulhos São Paulo
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Going over “Cherokee” at rehearsal with Amadeus Chamber Orchestra conducted by @AnnaDuczmalMroz in Poznan, Poland #jazz #trumpet #concert #live #cherokee #jazzdance
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Just in time for the festive season, it’s “Winter Wonderland” with my daughter Oni on vocals. Stream the full track, and get into the spirit, November 30 on @Spotify and @AppleMusic
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Ready to Second Line for Roy Hargrove at @jazzdotorg watch live webcast now on FB Live and
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Thank you to Ignas Mažvila and the Baltic Bassoon Quartet for recording my piece “4 Bassoons Talking”
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Victor Goines and Sherman Irby warming up backstage before our concert with @MelbSymphony at @artscentremelb
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Teaching a young trumpet 🎺 player at @SaffronHallSW
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The @jazzdotorg Orchestra getting ready to go on stage with @NaseerShamma for our first gig at @chicagosymphony Hall
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Our pianist Dan nimmer warming up on Tadd Dameron's “If You Could See Me Now” before tonight’s show with the @jazzdotorg Orchestra at @kyperformingart in Louisville, KY
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Sound checking “Sophie Rose-Rosalee” for tonight’s show at LG Arts Center in Seoul
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Swingin’ at sound check for concert with @ibrahim_maalouf at @Jazz_in_Marciac 2018
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Soloing on “Mvt. 5: Save Us” at rehearsal for “All Rise” with the @jazzdotorg Orchestra and @MelbSymphony conducted by @BenNorthey at the Hamer Hall @artscentremelb
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The Septet sound checking “Petite Suite for Savion #2 ” with special guests @Kengo__Nakamura and Ozone Makoto for tonight’s show at Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo 🇯🇵
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“…What I learned from listening to my father about the importance of rhythm sections, servant leadership and kings in jazz...” Excerpt from the @NexusInstituut Lecture on November 12, 2023 in Rotterdam, ‘Calling Dr. Jazz: the Case for Integrity’. Watch the full lecture on…
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The @jazzdotorg Orchestra in sound check for Saturday’s halftime show at Elbel Field at @UMich @UMSpresents
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Behind the scenes look at what went into the musical creation of a scene of @boldenmovie Directed by Dan Pritzker, with music by Wynton Marsalis. Stream BOLDEN now on Prime Video, Apple TV and more…
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Soloing on “Abyssinian Mass: Offertory Part. II (Son)” during tonight’s concert with the @jazzdotorg Orchestra at @AteneulRoman in Bucharest
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The @jazzdotorg trumpet 🎺 section ready for halftime show with @umichband in Ann Arbor @UMich @UMSpresents
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#TBT Thelonious Monk... expect the unexpected. #Joy2Learn (2005)
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Working backstage on my “Shanghai Commission” to be premiered in Shanghai next March
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