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And we knew that things had changed the very first time we used the nickname that comes with his job, the drug czar. Michael botticelli its actually a title that i dont like. Pelley why . Botticelli because i think it connotes this old war on drugs focus to the work that we do. It portrays that we are clinging to kind of failed policies and failed practices in the past. Pelley are you sayth drugs for more than 40 years has been all wrong . Botticelli it has been all wrong. Pelley blunt force didnt knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol, and half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes. Botticelli we cant arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do i think its really inhumane, but its ineffective and it costs us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this. Pelley so what have we learned . Botticelli weve learned addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower. You know, we dont expect people with cancer just to stop having cancer. Pelley arent they doing it to themselves . Isnt a heroin addict making that choice . Botticelli of course not. You know, the hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain thats responsible for judgment. Pelley that is the essence approach addicts should be patients, not prisoners. He did it in massachusetts as director of Substance Abuse services. There, his initiatives included a high school for teens in recovery, and expanding drug courts, like this one in washington, d. C. , where offenders can choose treatment over jail, and the charges can be dropped. applause you know that there are people watching this interview and theyre saying to themselves, oh, great. He wants to open the jails and let the drug addicts out. Botticelli i think we have to base our policy on scientific understanding, you know, and weve had really great models and evaluated models to show that we can simultaneously divert people away from our criminal Justice System without an increase in crime. And it actually reduces crime. Pelley botticelli pursues reform with the passion of the converted because he, himself, is recovering from addiction. Back in 1988, he was a University Administrator whose car slammed into a truck. Botticelli was drunk. In truth, hed been drunk for years. Did you love drinking . Botticelli i would say that i probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. You know, i grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And, you know, drinking took all of that away, you know . People drink and do drugs for a reason, because it makes them feel good, you know, until it doesnt anymore. Pelley is it true that, after the accident, you woke up handcuffed to a gurney . Botticelli i did. I did. And, you know, you think to yourself, how did i get to this point, you know, in my life . Pelley that point included imminent eviction from his apartment because the booze had washed away all the money. Botticelli a very wise judge said to me, michael, you have two options you can either get care for your drinking problem, or we can continue with criminal proceedings. Pelley it was at that point and went to the 12step meeting down in the basement . Botticelli yeah, i did. Pelley what was that first meeting like . Botticelli its hard for me to talk about this, and not from a sense of sadness. From a sense of tremendous gratitude. This was the first time that i raised my hand and said that i was an alcoholic and that i had a problem. And what the miraculous thing about that movement is that people rally around you in ways. You know, addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And, you know, when you admit. When you come into a fellowship like this and people just surround you and say, we will help you, that youre not alone, that weve been through it before, and you will get through it, just gives you such great hope. Pelley hes been alcohol free for 27 years. Budget across 16 government agencies. Just over half of the money goes to drug enforcement. What do you say to those who argue, and there are many, that if you lock down the southern border, you solve the drug problem . Botticelli i think its overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use. Pelley for example, he says the heroin crisis was created here at home. Botticelli we know one of the drivers of heroin has been the misuse of pain medication. If were going to deal with heroin and heroin use in the united states, we really have to focus on reducing the magnitude of the Prescription Drug use issue. Pelley many pain drugs are opioids, like heroin. And the number of opioid prescriptions has risen from 76 million in 1991 to 207 million today. Botticelli we have a medical community that gets little training on pain, gets le training on addiction, and quite honestly has been promoting and continues to promote the overprescribing of these pain medications. Pelley some are born addicted. We met botticelli at massachusetts general, where dr. Leslie kerzner weans infants off of opioids. Leslie kerzner im just going to give him this little bit of morphine right in his cheek. Pelley in the last decade, the number of expectant mothers on opioids has increased five fold. Kerzner if they dont get the treatment, they could have a seizure, and thats what we really worry about. Pelley but how does a person who is addicted to prescription pain medication find themselves on heroin . Botticelli Prescription Drugs and heroin act in very similar ways on the brain. And, you know, unfortunately, heroin, because of its widespread availability, is a lot cheaper on the streets of boston and many places around this country. Pelley heroin is cheaper than prescription painkillers . Botticelli it is. Cheap as 5, 10. Pelley more than 120 americans die of drug overdoses each day. That is more than car wrecks or gun violence. To save lives, botticelli started an experiment in 2010 with the quincy, massachusetts, police. Lieutenant Patrick Glynn is head of narcotics. Patrick glynn when someone dies of an overdose, the Community Becomes very, very small. Everyone knows each other, even in a large city as ours. Just recently, in the past four to six months, some of our officers have lost children. Pelley in a city of about 100,000 people, did i just understand you to say that some of your officers have lost children to drug overdoses . Glynn yes. Pelley how many . Glynn two did. Two. They. Two of them lost sons. Pelley in what period of time . Glynn within the last six months. Pelley botticelli helped arm every quincy officer with naloxone, a nasal spray antidote for overdose. Lieutenant glynn saw it work on an unconscious addict. Glynn within about 45 started to move around, their eyes fluttered, and they began to sit up and speak. Pelley must have looked like a miracle . Glynn its surreal. Pelley and they got to the victim in time due to a controversial innovation called the Good Samaritan law. One of the changes that came under botticellis administration was that someone involved in drugs, if there was an overdose, they could call 911, and they would not be arrested for having drugs on the premises. Glynn correct. Pelley what difference did that make . Glynn that opened the floodgates of people calling 911. Pelley today, 32 states have a similar 911 law, and naloxone is carried by more than 800 police departments. In massachusetts, botticelli helped make treating addiction routine healthcare, so patients can get their opioid treatments now in a doctors office. Things have been going really well for you well figure out the path you can walk down to stay in recovery. Pelley and today, the Affordable Care act requires most Insurance Companies to cover addiction treatment. Botticelli i often say that Substance Use is one of the last diseases where wed let people reach their most acute phase of this disorder before we offer them intervention. Youve heard the phrase hitting bottom. Well, we dont say that with any other disorder. So the medical community has a key role to play in terms of doing a better job of identifying people in the early stages of their disease, in doing a better job at treating people who have this disorder. Pelley notice that word disorder. Botticelli prefers it to addiction. He wants to lift the stigma by changing the language, as he did this past october in a rally on the national mall. Botticelli we must choose to come out in the light and be treated with dignity and respect. So lets stop whispering about this disease. Pelley botticelli sees a model for the change in attitude in the gay rights movement, which he has also lived. Hes been with his husband, david wells, more than 20 years. At what point were you comfortable talking about being a gay man . Botticelli before i was comfortable talking about being an alcoholic. Pelley the alcoholism was harder . Botticelli you know, even kind of feeling that moment of hesitation about saying that im in recovery and not about being a gay man shows to me that we still have more work to do to really destigmatize addiction. Pelley but its addiction to legal drugs alcohol and tobacco that kill the most americans, over half a million a year. Botticelli does not believe in adding another drug to that cocktail with the legalization of marijuana. Youre not a fan . Botticelli im not a fan. What weve seen, quite honestly, is a dramatic decrease in the perception of risk among youth around occasional marijuana use. And they are getting the message that, because its legal, that it is. Theres no harm associated with it. So, we know that about one in nine people who use marijuana become addicted to marijuana. Its been associated with poor academic performance, in exacerbating Mental Health conditions, linked to lower iq. Pelley botticelli worries the Marijuana Industry isg toba playbook. In the 1990s, Tobacco Companies appealed to kids with flavored cigarettes and joe camel. Today, the nearly 3 billion Marijuana Industry promotes sweetened edibles and buddie, a mascot for legalization. You are never going to be able to talk all the states out of the tax revenue that will come from a burgeoning Marijuana Industry. It will just be too seductive. Botticelli you know, thats, quite honestly, my fear is that states are going to become pelley it becomes a codependency. Botticelli it becomes an addiction to, unfortunately, a tax revenue thats often basedi. Pelley as for his own recovery, botticelli says it gets easier, though he still attends those 12step meetings that he called miraculous. There are people watching this interview right now who are addicted to drugs, are alcoholics. And they cannot stop. And to them, you say what . Botticelli that theres help. That theres hope. That there is treatment available. If i, in some small way, can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, i will feel accomplished in my job. Cbs money watch update sponsored by lincoln financial, youre in charge. Reporter good evening. Secretary of state john kerry and treasury secretary jacob lew are in beijing tonight for economic talks. Insurers estimate at least 680 million in damage from the paris floods. And voters in switzerland rejected a plan that would have guaranteed everybody an unconditional basic income. Im elaine quijano, cbs news. Oh hank, you look red. Are you sunburned . No, dory. Well, you do look red. Im supposed to be red. And fish dont get sunburned. What youre a fish . Uhhhh. Keep your little ones protected with coppertone kids. See Disney Pixars finding dory june 17th. Stahl when muhammad ali died friday night, we lost a transcendent figure. In his 74 years, the threetime heavyweight champion transcended boxing, transcended sports. Muhammad ali transcended the divisions of politics, race and religion to become, for a time, the most recognizable person in the world. He finally transcended the ravages of the parkinsons syndrome that robbed him of control over his once quick and supple body. And he did it all with a grace, humor and wit that ensured he would forever retain his own title of the greatest. When our late colleague ed bradley joined him 20 years ago, muhammad ali could no longer, as he used to say, float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Instead, what ed found, was a man who had come to terms with parkinsons, the disease his doctors told him came from his years in the ring but still hadnt put him on the canvas. We decided to broadcast that story tonight as a tribute to muhammed ali. Heres how ed told it back then. Ed bradley he called himself today it is difficult for him to talk. There is a constant shaking of his hand, a rigid walk, sometimes a vacant stare. Still, people tend to dismiss his physical limitations and are respectful of the sometimes awkward silence that questions receive. Ali, you still the prettiest . Fan ali, you are still the prettiest. How are you doing . Bradley many are people deeply touched by his presence. Fan we met you in Atlantic City and you were wonderful to me and my husband. Thank you. You are the cham both their adulation and their concern for him, often breaking the ice by reaching back to the familiar. Lonnie ali when people perceive muhammad, they want to see that fire. They want to see what they saw 20 years ago. Bradley lonnie ali is muhammad alis fourth wife. Theyve been married for eight years. Lonnie ali muhammad has a way of communicating with people. And i think he knows this. And thats one of the reasons why he really doesnt bother with the speech as much. He can communicate with the heart and with his face, and he knows that. Fan champ, i just wanted to meet you and wish you the best. We love you. Bradley yet its hard not to see the muhammad ali of today without remembering the ali of yesterday. Muhammad ali i am the king of the world reporter hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Muhammad ali im pretty reporter hold it. You are not that pretty. Muhammad ali im a mans man. Reporter wait, wait. Bradley ali was a magnificent fighter. He had the speed of a lightweight in the body of a heavyweight; he fought as no one had before him. Fearless in the ring, time and time again, he seemed unwilling to accept defeat. Three times over his 21year career, he was heavyweight champion. Reporter a ripping right at the end of the round sends foreman tumbling like a tree struck by lightning. Bradley during his time, ali was a boxer without parallel. He also was a talker without parallel. Muhammad ali im the fastest thing on two feet, man. I dont care how small the ring is. Ill fight that chump in a telephone booth. Bradley he was known as the louisville lip. Reporter let me see you close your mouth and just keep it closed. Muhammad ali well, you know, thats impossible. Man no, no, now keep it closed. Muhammad ali you know, thats impossible. Im the greatest bradley but today, if the louisville lip is not forgotten, it is gone forever. I dont box, i dont box. Dr. Ferdie pacheco just look in his eyes. His eyes will tell you what hes thinking. You can see a twinkle in the eye all the time. Hes mischievous. Hes like a little kid. Hes still laughing. Hes still thinking. Hes a wonderful person. Bradley dr. Ferdie pacheco and trainer Angelo Dundee worked with ali d Angelo Dundee hes going to do some a magic trick for you. Bradley ali was always a trickster, partial to elementary magic tricks and practical jokes. He hasnt changed. Cope just as he was a champion in the ring, so has he brought this quality of indomitable spirit to his sickness. He acts like he doesnt have anything, and thats the way to do it. Thats the way to do it, no matter what kind of disease youve got. Act like you havent got it. Keep on going. Bradley he keeps on going, on the road more often than not, and mostly for charity, but also for business commitments that generate close to 1 million a year. His schedule only allowed him 90 free days last year to spend at his farm in southwestern michigan, where he and lonnie raise their fiveyearold son asaad, alis ninth child. Here, his day begins before dawn p prayers during the day, which is part of the normal day for all muslims. Today, ali is a follower of conventional islam. For a time, he was a member of the separatist nation of islam. Following those beliefs, he changed his name from cassius clay and refused to be drafted into the army during the vietnam war. For that, he risked a jail sentence and was forced out of the ring at the peak of his career, denied a license, unable to fight for three years. Muhammad ali now draft is another thing thats against my religious beliefs. Bradley he is just as serious about his religion now. He spends hours each day autographing islamic literature to pass out on the road to explain his beliefs. And the rest of his day . Well, if hes home, there is the seemingly endless stream of mail. How many letters do you get a week . Lonnie ali i dont know. About 200 to 300 pieces. Bradley wow, even after all these years . Lonnie ali after all of these years. Is spent signing his name. The fan mail and religious literature are only part of it. He does do some autograph shows where he is paid a minimum of 100 for each signature. But for the most part he signs for free, responding to the endless requests from people he sees in his travels. Muhammad. All right. Bradley we watched him at one event signing it must have been a couple of hundred autographs. Not at a card show, where he was being paid, but for free. Lonnie ali yes. Bradley and he, when asked about it afterwards, he said, im just. He whispered, im just trying to get to heaven. Lonnie ali thats right. Every deed he performs. He believes every signature he signs is a good deed and will be counted. And its very difficult sometimes to get muhammad away from his fans, because he usually never says no to anybody unless hes just extremely tired. Bradley even when he is tired, he often says yes to another trip for charity. We went with him on this one, a fiveday humanitarian mission to accompany a relief Group Delivering medical supplies to cuba. They were seeking publicity for the trip and paid his expenses. Muhammad ali bradley alis host for the trip was cubas own boxing hero, threetime olympic gold medallist teofilo stevenson. But alis fame even eclipses the native son, proof that his legend that he is recognized in every corner of the world still holds 15 years after his last fight, that he still knows how to captivate a crowd helps. Knock him down bradley the job of shepherding ali through the lonnie, and alis best friend of 35 years, photographer howard bingham. Howard bingham all right. Bradley bingham is also alis ed mcmahon, his sidekick and straight man. Bingham hit him here where it hurts. Hit him right bradley their responsibility for ali is a labor of love for both bingham and lonnie. They play their roles well. Theyve rehearsed their parts in alis routines. Bingham thats right. Bradley i have heard you do this clucking sound. Bingham clucking yeah. That is. Okay, say, like, if im over here and alis over there, and it is easier to say clucks . And then he looks at me and then i say, oh, yeah, all right, come this way. Hey, ali. Ali, ali. Touch him. Touch him. Lonnie ali sometimes he does that. Bradley yeah . Lonnie ali it happened after the frazier fight in manila. Bradley what happened . Lonnie ali i dont know. I wasnt there. In manila, muhammad will. Its sort of like narcolepsy. Hell just start sleeping, but hell have these flashbacks. And hell have. Its like nightmares. His face will twist up, like hes boxing, and hell throw punches at people. And he does it at night sometimes. Sometimes. I figured out the thing. Whenever he starts snoring up heavily, i have to get out of the bed because i know its going to start. Bradley is that right . So, when he starts. Bingham this is his next round. Bradley hes not putting on when hes doing this . Lonnie ali no, this actually happens. And the doctor told us not to really try to wake him if that does happen because he might end up with a heart attack, because it might frighten him. So i dont. I just get up and move. Thats. Thats the hard part. We have to sort of. snoring bradley you got me. Ali gets everybody with practical jokes or his magic tricks the bellman at the hotel, a crowd on the street, even fidel castro. Fidel castro translated where did you put it . Bradley thats a fake thumb he uses to hide the handkerchief. Ali always shows people how he does his tricks. He believes its against islam to deceive people. Castro translated i will try. I will try. Bradley castros reaction to ali is the same as most respectful admiration undiminished by his illness. While we were in cuba, ali said he wanted to talk to us about his life now, and said hed try to do it after he got back home to the farm. So maybe when we get up there, we can sit you down in a chair and you can talk. Muhammad ali probably. Bradley that be okay . Muhammad ali probably. Bradley probably . Muhammad ali according to how i feel. Bradley according to how you feel . Muhammad ali mmhmm. Bradley some days better than others for talking . Muhammad ali yeah. Lonnie ali i think he is very aware of how he sounds. And coming from where muhammad came from the louisville lip and being as audible and as boastful as he used to be when he was boxing. I mean, he was always talking. And now to have a problem with his voice and speaking, i think it bothers him a great deal. Bradley is he embarrassed by it . Lonnie ali i would say yes, to some degree he is. Bradley and perhaps thats why when we sat down in michigan for an interview, he changed his mind about talking to us when the camera was rolling. Im just going to show you a picture and you can react to it any way you want to. Bradley you cant talk . Now, i know you can talk. Youve talked to me, you talk to lonnie, you talk to howard. Muhammad . But on this day he didnt want to talk. In his kitchen, away from the microphone, ali explained that he didnt want people to feel sorry for him, didnt want to be pitied, didnt want people to say, poor ali, he fought too long. He still has no regrets about what boxing did to him because of what boxing has done for him. Lonnie ali muhammad feels that everything he did prior to now was to prepare him for where he is now in life. He is very much more a spiritual being. He is very aware of his time here on earth. And he has sort of planned the rest of his life to do things so that he is assured a place in heaven. Bradley people shouldnt feel sorry for him . Lonnie ali oh, absolutely not, absolutely not. Muhammad is very well taken care of. He is a very independent individual, probably always will be to the day he dies. He makes his own decisions. Hes not destitute. Time lonnie ali there are people who are more deserving of the publics sympathy than muhammad. Muhammads a very happy man. And if you relate to him in that way, if you have a smile on your face, youll see a smile on his face. This cbs sports update is brought to you by ford. At the memorial tournament presented by nationwide, William Mcgurk won in playoff over john curran, his first career victory. Novak djokovic took andy muryra and the mens final at the french open, completing his career grand slam. In baseball, torontos mar the eighth. Blue jays won that one. Diamondbacks over the cubs. Jim nantz reporting from ohio. The new ford escape. Life is a sport. We are the utility. Be unstoppable. 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Since he arrived in new york two years ago, joey has been captivating fans and fellow musicians alike. And after you meet him, we think for a jazz musician, theres no bigger stage than the newport jazz festival. Most artists work a lifetime to get here, if they ever make it at all. Its Joey Alexanders first time playing newport. Hes the youngest person ever invited to perform on this stage. He may only be 12 years old, but his sound and his soul seem a lot older than that. cheers and applause newport audiences can be a tough history at newport once again. Cooper when we sat down with him later in new york, we were reminded he is just a kid who first touched a keyboard six years ago. What do you think it was about jazz . Joey alexander i think it. It has that special feeling that. Which is the blues and swing feel. Cooper what do you mean by swing . Alexander like, swing is, like, the groove. Its like. Cooper ive never had a 12 yearold try to explain to me about groove. Alexander oh. laughs cooper just listen to him groove on this song, ma blues. He wrote it when he was ten. Whats most remarkable is that joey is already a master of improvisation. Most of what he plays, he makes up as he goes along. Do you know how youre going to improvise something before you do it . I mean, have you planned it all out . Alexander when im in stage, i never plan, you know, im going to do this. But of course, you have a concept what youre going to do, but you dont really plan it. Cooper so, every time, it might be different . Alexander yeah. Cooper it sounds really hard . Alexander laughs it is kind of hard. Cooper and yet, joey makes it look so easy. Wynton marsalis, one of the biggest names in jazz and a contributor to 60 minutes, has seen a lot of young talent over the years. Wynton marsalis ive never heard anyone who could play like him. Cooper nobody. Marsalis and no one has heard a person who could play like him. Cooper he has genius. Marsalis theres no question about that. To. To any of us. Cooper genius . This is what he means. Marsalis lets take a traditional hymn like just a closer walk with thee. So if you just play the. The melody, and with basic chord changes, this is with no improvisation. Alexander oh, the song, okay. How does it go . playing just a closer walk with thee marsalis now hes going to improvise on it. laughter cooper that was cool. Marsalis oh, man, somebody 12 playing like that. Cooper joeys talent may be undeniable, but marsalis says no one can explain where it comes from. Marsalis why . We dont. We dont know why. I once asked miles davis about sound. Man, how you get the sound you get . He said, man, nobody know about sound. Sound just is. And i think that about his. His abilities. They are. Cooper they just are. Marsalis they are. Cooper its not just how he plays that sets him apart, its where hes from bali, a tiny indonesian island better known for palm trees than piano players. Day, when joey was six, his parents, denny and fara, brought home a keyboard, hoping to channel all that restless energy. You thought that maybe that would focus him. Denny silas yeah. Yeah. At the same time, we wanted to find out whether hes musical or not, because we have a musical family. Cooper and that was the first time he started playing with the keyboard. Denny silas yeah. Cooper here he is one year later at age seven. Remember, no one taught joey how to play like this. He just picked it up listening to his dads albums of duke ellington, charlie parker, and thelonious monk. He was just listening to your records and playing along. Denny silas right. Right. Cooper they did hire a piano instructor, but he tried to teach joey Classical Music, chopin and tchaikovsky. It didnt go well. Why, because joey wanted to improvise . Fara silas yeah. Denny silas even just a little bit. Coope denny silas just embellish it. Cooper and there. The classical teacher didnt like tchaikovsky being embellished. Denny silas no, no. Cooper what did that tell you . Denny silas he wants to be free. Cooper and jazz allows that. Jazz allows that freedom. Denny silas to express yourself. Cooper joey began expressing himself on stages across indonesia. Videos of him playing went viral, and made it to wynton marsalis, whos managing and artistic director of jazz at Lincoln Center in new york. He was so impressed by what he heard, he invited joey to perform at their annual gala, their biggest event of the year. And even though it was his new york debut and his first time performing for such a crowd, joey decided to play one of the toughest songs in jazz, round midnight. playing round midnight orchestra rose, the crowd rose, and joey, who was ten at the time. He didnt know what to do. Billy crystal dont go, joey. Cooper he tried to walk off the stage. Crystal dont go. Cooper the host that evening was billy crystal. Crystal take it in, man. Take it in. Come back out, come back out. Cooper joey had arrived. Crystal Joey Alexander cooper you got a standing ovation . Alexander well, thank god for that. laughter cooper thank god for that . Alexander i mean, i didnt expect to have a standing ovation. Cooper that concert changed joeys life. His parents sold what they had in indonesia and moved the family to new york. He started playing gigs, touring the country, winning fans, and different world. So, how do you like new york . Alexander well, i. New york is great. I love it. Cooper yeah . Alexander especially, like, here, where we now. The people and, you know, its so. So much, the energy. I mean, everybody wants to be here, even me. Cooper within months of arriving, he was in the studio recording his first album, my favorite things. playing my favorite things gary walker is the music director at jazz Radio Station wbgo. Hes been following joeys progress since he came to new york. Gary walker if you listen to the way Joey Alexander plays my favorite things. At one point in that piece of music, his sensibility through his left hand is almost like youre going to church. Brothers and sisters laughs but his right hand is. Is playing at such a fleeting moment, theres a traffic ticket waiting for him when hes done. laughs cooper is he good for a 12 year old, or is he just good . Walker hes just good. Hes just good. At any age, his language is pretty special. But at the age of 12, you almost think, you know, i might even believe in reincarnation, perhaps. Cooper joey will tell you hes just a young kid with a gift that comes from god. But he still has to work very hard. He practices two to three hours a day, then is homeschooled. He also has a tough tour schedule, and his late night gigs can keep him up until midnight. Some people who are going to see this story and think, this kid is being pushed by their marsalis hes not. Hes not being pushed by his parents. This kid philosophically is so strong. And his parents are not pushing him; hes pushing them. Cooper theyre facilitating his gift . Marsalis theyre facilitating him. Cooper facilitating joey is a fulltime job. His parents were on hand as he was getting ready for a performance with the jazz at Lincoln Center orchestra in new york. It was the first time hed play with an ensemble this size. The music is by thelonious monk, among the toughest tunes there are. Before the concert, there were three days of intensive rehearsals. Joey didnt get it right away. Marsalis if you could remember the way you played in the middle, when you start off, try to play with that same feeling. Cooper a prodigy still needs plenty of practice. Marsalis joey. Alexander yeah . Marsalis concentrate on the melody, right . Cooper but it didnt take joey long to finally find his groove. And then the big night, a sold out show at new yorks town hall. Joey was as ready as he could be. Everything was in place. laughter almost. applause once the seat was adjusted. His hands took off. Jazz is always conversation, but joey doesnt just want to hold his own. On this night, he stood and took the lead. And just look at the faces of ot the audience was rapt. His father beamed. cheers and applause this time, the little boy from bali stayed on the stage and took it all in. Marsalis our young genius, Joey Alexander on the piano. applause Joey Alexander plays one of his own jazz compositions at 60minutesovertime. Com, sponsored by pfizer. Vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me pelley im scott pelley. Well be back next week with another edition of 60 minutes. 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