Wynton Marsalis
Trumpeter and composer, 9-time Grammy Award winner, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture from New Orleans. He has revitalized the popularity of jazz. Thanks to Wynton Marsalis, 1996 saw the release of the first ever jazz TV program. He has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers. Wynton Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards. In 1983, at the age of 22, he became the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for both jazz and classical records. He repeated this distinction by winning jazz and classical Grammys again in 1984. In 1997, Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his epic oratorio Blood On The Fields. After his first album was released in 1982, he won the DownBeat magazine surveys in the categories Musician of the Year, Trumpeter of the Year and Album of the Year. In 2017, Wynton Marsalis became one of the youngest inductees in