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Wynton Marsalis was one of the best-known jazz musicians of the 1980s and 1990s. A trumpet prodigy from New Orleans, Marsalis joined Art Blakey's famous band the Jazz Messengers while still a teenager. Throughout the 1980s he led several jazz bands of his own, and then became artistic director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center program in New York. At the same time Marsalis maintained a highly successful classical music career; in 1983 he won both classical and jazz Grammy Awards, becoming the first recording artist ever to accomplish that feat. In 1997 he won the Pulitzer Prize in music for his composition Blood On the Fields. Marsalis's extreme popularity and outspoken style have made him a somewhat controversial figure in jazz circles; Marsalis is known as a jazz purist, rejecting fusion and "free" jazz in favor of more traditional jazz and bop.
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Virtuoso trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is one of the best-known figures on the international music scene. A student of jazz and classical music, he's won Grammys for best soloist on records of both genres. He's ... the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize in music. Marsalis has a passion for education and is co-founder and artistic director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center program. He's also been extremely active in supporting the post-hurricane rebuilding efforts of his New Orleans hometown.
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A child prodigy who matured into one of the most spectacular talents of recent years, Wynton Marsalis has combined careers in classical music and jazz with equal success. [ view larger image ] (Redferns, London)
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Wynton Marsalis is scheduled to do an interview about Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center's $128 million new permanent home and performance space. But the interview can't get started because Marsalis, who has been JLC's artistic director since its founding in 1991, can't stop staring at the temporary stage in the Allen Room, one of Rose Hall's three sumptuous theaters. The stage that's bugging Marsalis is a modular thing on little aluminum legs. You can add or subtract pieces from it, and it's obvious that Marsalis would like to subtract. Ask anyone involved with JLC: Marsalis doesn't like stages, doesn't like being above the audience, likes to perform in the round, and on and on. There is almost nothing about this place that he hasn't put his stamp on, right down to the freight elevator, which is decorated with a scrap of the score from one of his compositions, "All Rise." He seems flustered for a second when he can't tell what kind of wood is used in the Allen Room's floor, but then he looks straight at you and says, "But I know exactly what it cost."
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Articulate and outspoken, Wynton Marsalis emerged as a leading spokesman for jazz as well as one of the leading jazz musicians of the 1980s and 90s. When the jazz program at New York's Lincoln Center was initiated in 1991, he was appointed artistic director, a post he has held since. Also an active music educator, he wrote, hosted, and performed in a Public Broadcasting series (1995) on the essentials of classical music and jazz. Marsalis won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for music for his jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields; he was the first jazz musician to receive the award. He has ... written a monumental orchestral and choral piece with numerous jazz elements entitled All Rise (2000).
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Born October 18, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Wynton Marsalis began studying trumpet when he was twelve years old. Today he is one of the most famous jazz musicians alive. He has made over 40 music recordings both in jazz and in classical music and he has won nine Grammy awards! Today he is the Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the world's largest arts organization devoted to jazz. One of the best parts of his job is to teach about jazz. This is one reason why he wrote a jazz curriculum for students and teachers called Jazz for Young People.
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