Wynton Learson Marsalis was born on October 18,1961 and is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
34 Facts About Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences.
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Wynton Marsalis is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical during the same year.
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Wynton Marsalis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18,1961, and grew up in the suburb of Kenner.
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Wynton Marsalis is the second of six sons born to Dolores Ferdinand Marsalis and Ellis Marsalis Jr.
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Hirt volunteered to give him one, so at the age of six Wynton Marsalis received his first trumpet.
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Wynton Marsalis attended Benjamin Franklin High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.
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Wynton Marsalis studied classical music at school and jazz at home with his father.
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Wynton Marsalis performed on trumpet publicly as the only black musician in the New Orleans Civic Orchestra.
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Wynton Marsalis applied to only two music colleges, the Juilliard School and Northwestern University.
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Wynton Marsalis was accepted to both schools and chose to attend the former.
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Wynton Marsalis intended to pursue a career in classical music.
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Wynton Marsalis changed his mind about his career and turned to jazz.
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Wynton Marsalis has said that years of playing with Blakey influenced his decision.
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Wynton Marsalis recorded for the first time with Blakey and one year later he went on tour with Herbie Hancock.
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When Branford and Kenny Kirkland left three years later to record and tour with Sting, Wynton Marsalis formed another quartet, this time with Marcus Roberts on piano, Robert Hurst on double bass, and Watts on drums.
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Wynton Marsalis has established himself as a lecturer and musical ambassador, having spoken and performed on every continent except Antarctica.
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In 1987, Wynton Marsalis helped start the Classical Jazz summer concert series at Lincoln Center in New York City.
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Wynton Marsalis became artistic director of the center and the musical director of the band, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
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In 1986, Wynton Marsalis guest starred in an episode of Sesame Street.
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In 2005, Wynton Marsalis played at Apple's "It's Showtime" Special Event on October 12th, where the new iMac with Front Row, and iPod with Video were introduced.
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In December 2011, Wynton Marsalis was named cultural correspondent for CBS This Morning.
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Wynton Marsalis is a member of the CuriosityStream Advisory Board.
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Wynton Marsalis serves as director of the Juilliard Jazz Studies program.
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Wynton Marsalis was involved in writing, arranging, and performing music for the 2019 Daniel Pritzker film Bolden.
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Wynton Marsalis is generally associated with straight-ahead jazz, jazz that kept to the original instruments used in jazz and eschewed electronica that gained prominence in the 70s and 80s.
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Wynton Marsalis is the son of the late jazz musician Ellis Wynton Marsalis Jr.
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Wynton Marsalis's son, Jasper Armstrong Wynton Marsalis, is a music producer known professionally as Slauson Malone.
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Wynton Marsalis has won the National Medal of Arts, the National Humanities Medal, and been named an NEA Jazz Master.
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Wynton Marsalis has toured in 30 countries and on every continent except Antarctica.
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Wynton Marsalis was given the Louis Armstrong Memorial Medal and the Algur H Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts.
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Wynton Marsalis was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement and was dubbed an Honorary Dreamer by the I Have a Dream Foundation.
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Wynton Marsalis won the Dutch Edison Award and the French Grand Prix du Disque.
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Wynton Marsalis has received honorary degrees from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, University of Scranton, Kenyon College, New York University, Columbia, Connecticut College, Harvard, Howard, Northwestern, Princeton, Vermont, the State University of New York, and the University of Michigan.