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June 20, 2016. The Story Behind the First Pulitzer for Jazz. How Wynton Marsalis’s 1997 win moved the Music Pulitzers beyond the classical canon. Article by. Howard Reich. music Pulitzer Prizes. Wynton Marsalis’s “Blood on the Fields" was the first non-classical work to win the Pulitzer Prize Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer.
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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 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 ...
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 2007, the Music Prize went to Ornette Coleman for "Sound Grammar," the first live jazz recording to win the award. Prefiguring his later recognition as a Nobel laureate in literature, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan received a Special Citation in 2008.
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.
Apr 16, 2018 · Culture. Kendrick Lamar just became the first rapper to win a Pulitzer. DAMN. may not have won Album of the Year at the Grammys, but it’s taking home a Pulitzer instead. by Constance Grady. Apr...
