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Performer

Wynton Marsalis

Style

Blues Jazz Swing hard bop post-bop modern classical jazz and blues dixieland third stream baroque music

Country

United States

Listenings: 21
Listeners: 5

Performer description

Wynton Learson Marsalis 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.

Participated in

Solo Branford Marsalis Trio David Crosby Eric Clapton George Benson Herbie Hancock Natalie Cole Paul Simon Robert Farnon & His Orchestra Tony Bennett Vanessa Williams Willie Nelson