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Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences.
Unlike those who wou see jazz history as a series of vaguely related but essentially discontinuous phases – New Orleans style, ragtime, swing, bebop, cool jazz, free jazz and fusion – Marsalis sees it as an evolving, consistent whole at least up to a certain point.
Dec 3, 2003 · With Wynton Marsalis on half the tunes and Marcus Printup on the other half, the saxophonist finds himself exploring those qualities that we look for in good musicianship. While interpreting his lovely ballad “Bells of Brescia,” for example, Nash and Marsalis go for the heart.
News. Wynton Marsalis: At 20, a master of jazz style. It’s seldom that any jazz musician – let alone such a very young, not yet widely known player as trumpeter Wynton Marsalis – gets a page to himself in People magazine. But early this year that’s where Marsalis was, under the banner “Personalities to Watch.”.
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz.
Apr 29, 2019 · By Hank Shteamer. April 29, 2019. Wynton Marsalis selects and discusses 12 essential jazz recordings, from King Oliver to Charles Mingus and beyond. Piper Ferguson. “It’s self-explanatory,”...
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Jun 23, 2020 · June 23, 2020. In early March, Wynton Marsalis, the trumpeter and composer, went into pandemic lockdown with a preconceived notion of all he might accomplish. “I thought that I would be able to...
