The Suite Life on Deck part 3 tonight

Disney Channel’s “The Suite Life on Deck” offers a triple play of new episodes this weekend that includes a visit from a trio of NBA stars and promises to reveal Mr. Tipton, father of the mostly clueless celebutant London Tipton. Along the way, Bailey (Debby Ryan) makes a trip home for her Grandma’s 90th birthday party in an episode that allows the series to offer an homage to “The Wizard of Oz.”

The new eps air 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Here’s a capsule look:

Friday

"Twister: Part 1" – London (Brenda Song) offers to take Bailey home for her grandma's 90th birthday party, but when her blimp goes down, the girls must road-trip to Kettlecorn.  Unsure why Bailey has left the boat, Cody (Cole Sprouse) mopes around before deciding to head to Kettlecorn to win her back.

Meanwhile, Zack (Dylan Sprouse) and Woody (Matthew Timmons) challenge Moseby (Phill Lewis) and his brother to a basketball game — only to discover Moseby's brother is NBA star Dwight Howard, who is visiting the S.S. Tipton with his buddies Deron Williams and Kevin Love.

Saturday

"Twister: Part 2" – When Cody arrives in Kettlecorn, he learns that he is not Bailey's only ex-boyfriend who has come to win her back – Moose (Hutch Dano) is also there. When a tornado approaches, everyone must pile together into the Pickett's shelter. While in the shelter, Bailey gets knocked out and has a "Wizard of Oz"-type dream, and when she awakes, she finds that her family's farm has been destroyed.  Unable to afford school due to the tragedy, Bailey will not be returning to the S.S. Tipton.

Sunday

"Twister, Part 3" - After three seasons, London Tipton's tycoon father and owner of the Tipton hotel and S.S. Tipton, makes a un-obscured appearance when Cody begs him to help save Bailey's family farm in Kettlecorn. In his previous appearances, Mr. Tipton has been surrounded by bodyguards, his face hidden. John Michael Higgins plays the never before seen Mr. Tipton.

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Wynton Marsalis is America's Musical Ambassador

He is an American master - Wynton Marsalis - at age 49, arguably the best known living jazz artist and leader of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, probably the best big band at work today. They're on the road constantly, bringing America's most distinctive art form to the world, most recently to London, Berlin and Havana. 

"60 Minutes" were lucky enough to tag along - a joyous assignment, if there ever was one, trying to get a sense of this band of brothers, their music and their effect as unofficial ambassadors. Marsalis is the leader of the band but he's buried in the back row. 

"It's interesting. When you guys take the stage, you're never front and center," Safer pointed out.  "No. I play fourth trumpet. That's my role. I like it. I'm comfortable playin' in the trumpet section. It started because I can't really conduct. I'm not a good conductor," Marsalis explained.  He tried, until a brave member of the band delivered the verdict. "Every time I would start conducting, if I would mess something up, he would look down at his music and go (thumb over shoulder). That meant 'Go get back in the trumpet section,'" Marsalis remembered. 

And there Marsalis stays, storming his way through some of the most difficult, hair-raising music in the jazz repertoire. 

"I like pressure. I like that. I like the challenge. I don't have a problem with it at all. I like the feeling of nervousness. I like the feeling that something counts. And I like to be tested," he told Safer. 

Soloing certain tunes, a bass player said many years ago, is like trying to change the fan belt on your car with the engine running.  "Man, when you're playing, and you're playing with other people, it's such a combination of emotion, it's so intense. And when you make a tender statement or something's real sweet and you just caress a note that takes more intensity. It's powerful," Marsalis said. 

It's hard to believe the boy wonder from New Orleans, who has been startling both jazz and classical audiences since his teens, is now pushing 50. He has won nine Grammys and a Pulitzer Prize for music. 

And he has logged more miles around the world than your average secretary of state.  "You've spent 30 years since you were a teenager in the music business. That makes you, in a certain way, a very young elder statesman," Safer remarked. 

"I don't feel like that. I mean, they will tease me, called me an old man since I was in my late 20s," Marsalis said.  It was his old man, Ellis, a pianist, a New Orleans legend, who passed the jazz gene on to Wynton and three of his five brothers. 

Marsalis himself, who has never married, has four children. 

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