Performer
Wynton Marsalis
Style
Blues
Jazz
Swing
hard bop
post-bop
modern classical
jazz and blues
dixieland
third stream
baroque music
Country
United States
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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.
