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Jon Batiste on the key to improvising music

At Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, correspondent Bill Whitaker watched the composer Jon Batiste and other musicians whip up a song out of thin air. The former Late Show with Stephen Colbert bandleader told 60 Minutes he uses improvisation to write and record new music.

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Edward Heath Siblings: All About John Heath

Sir Edward Richard George Heath, commonly known as Ted Heath, was born on 9 July 1916 in Broadstairs, Kent, and died on 17 July 2005 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, at the age of 89.

  • John Heath was Edward Heath's younger brother.
  • Born in early 1920s, they grew up in Kent.
  • John became a borough surveyor, married Muriel.

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