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- Born
- 1961
- Works
- 22
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- Jazz en el Agridulce Blues de la Vida
- Squeak! rumble! whomp! whomp! whomp!
- Jazz in the bittersweet blues of life
- To a Young Jazz Musician
- Jazz for Young People, Vol. 2, a Teacher's Resouce Guide To
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Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.…
Known for
- In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon — Self2024
- Jazz 100 — self2023
- Hargrove — Self2022
- Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self2022
- Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music — Self - musician2021
- Find Your Groove — Self2020
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Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his 1997 oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year.
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1961 births20th-century African-American musicians20th-century American jazz composers20th-century American male composers21st-century American jazz composers21st-century American male composersAfrican-American film score composersAfrican-American jazz composersAfrican-American music educatorsAmerican big band bandleadersAmerican classical trumpeters