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Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his 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.
In 1996, the Pulitzer Board announced a change in the criteria for the music prize "so as to attract the best of a wider range of American music." African-American composer and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
Wynton Marsalis’s “Blood on the Fields,” an epic vocal-orchestral suite that dealt head-on with the tragedy of slavery, became not only the first jazz work to take the highest honor in American music but the first non-classical piece ever to win.
Wynton Marsalis says becoming the first jazz artist to win a Pulitzer Prize is not about him—it’s about the music. Marsalis won the prestigious prize for music for his epic jazz opera. Blood on the Fields, which focuses on the tragedy of slavery in America. Until now, the Pulitzer Prize for music has traditionally recognized classical ...
Feb 19, 2021 · Outspoken, sometimes abrasive, Wynton Marsalis almost single-handedly initiated a revival of interest in mainstream jazz tradition among young musicians. In 1997 he became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize in music, for his epic oratorio on the subject of slavery, Blood on the Fields.
Columbia University President George Rupp (left) presents Wynton Marsalis with the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Winning Work. Blood on the Fields is presented in a 1997 recording on Columbia Recordsby Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Biography.
Apr 12, 1997 · Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer this past week. His work is called "Blood on the Fields" which is a 3 hour plus oratorio about slavery in the United States....
