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Time with him and thought you might like to, as well. listen. ♪ and forget for a moment that he is only 11. because at any age, joey alexander is turning heads in the world of jazz. >> in a way, its like watching michael jordan play basketball. where theres just so much freedom, and the sky is the limit. >> he was born in indonesia. his parents, jazz lovers. >> when i was in my mothers room, i would listen to jazz. ♪ playing piano since age 6, he is virtually self-taught. joeys music ultimat...

Like -- everybody knows. ♪ joey calls jazz a language. >> for me, jazz is about freedom. freedom to express yourself. when you improvise, you make it up slowly. i love playing with other people. >> you play and ill catch in. it was all the invitation this amateur musician needed. ♪ whats it like being in front of the crowd? >> happy and maybe a little bit nervous. i want to take the audience feel good when i play. >> youve had a pretty amazing life for 11 years old. >> thank god. >> what do ...

>> it took thara memory 30 seconds to make his way on the stage. the director of the american music program of portland, oregon, is in failing health. but once he got there, his kids did something jazz legend wynton marsalis had never seen before. >> we were in shock. i couldnt believe it. >> marsalis was one of the judges who listed "the tattooed bride" as an option for the bands. but as a joke. >> i said nobodys going to play it nobody is stupid enough to play it. >> reporter: because its wide...

Band camp, not the kind with student drum majors, trombones and all that jazz. this is a band camp where the middle aged go, and some even older, to rock out. dean reynolds gets us plugged in. >> reporter: is this your only location. >> reporter: hugh hadlund is a small-town banker by day, but when night falls, he turns into something completely different. hadlund and his friends attend rock camp for dads. its a group that encourages men and women, actually, to pick up that instrument they put d...

They attend the once-a-week camp for a month in preparation for a real gig in front of a liveor audience at the end. the camp costs $229 for entry- level wanna-bees, and $329 for almost-ready-to-perform artists. >> i have a smile on my face when i get up and i cant wait to get here. >> reporter: a sometime musician and entrepreneur, mitch mcmillen founded the camp and is still amazed to meet so many people who are glad he did. >> there are tons all over the country. as of right now, weve been do...

Here at the addicts rehabilitation center, but the support from a.r.c.s gospel choir, they say, would keep them clean. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> as soon as i heard those people, i knew i was connected. >> reporter: staying drug free is the only requirement. its conducted under the watchful direction of 90-year- old james allen. ♪ save the children ♪ >> reporter: a former addict himself, he started the group 40 years ago to help raise money for treatment programs. how does music help with rehab? >> its ...

Gillespie and dave brubeck with his famous "take five." ♪ but it was pakistani music americans went to hear, until it was silenced. this address to the nation from a ruthless dictator, general zia. >> when he says that hes doing it for the love of the people but really hes saying he had to apply a squeeze. >> im trying to close the hand gradually, to apply the squeeze where it is necessary. >> reporter: he almost has a smile as he speaks of tightening his grip. >> its an evil grin. >> reporter...

This years derby set a new record for attendance. more than 170,000 people were at churchill downs. american popular music lost a giant thursday when ben e. king passed away at the age of 76. the co-writer and performer of one of the all-time great hits "stand by me" was also as sweet and kind a man as you could ever hope to meet. ♪ dont forget whos taking you home ♪ singing lead for the drifters and later on his own, he had a string of hits. ♪ this magic moment ♪ >> reporter: but ben e....

Name. king grew up in harlem where he was discovered as a teenager, the start of a performing and regarding career that last decades. ben e. king was 76 years old. a huge weekend ahead for sports fans with floyd mayweather and manny pacquiao ready to duke in out in whats been called the fight of the century. the two met earlier for the weigh-in the last time they will come face to face before they clash tomorrow night in the richest match in history. when we come back here in a moment, the chi...

Mayweather and many pacquiao weigh in for tomorrows big fight. the bout is expected to pull in as much as $400 million. the man who recorded one of the most enduring love songs has died at 76. his name: ben e. king. >> ♪ when the night has come... ♪ >> pelley: for ben e. king, the hits began in the late 1950s with the drifters. >> ♪ there goes my baby. ♪ ♪ so, darlin, save the last dance for me ♪ >> pelley: after leaving the group, he offered them a song hed been working on. they pas...