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Saturday, February 3, 2024

Play It Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis
b. October 18, 1961

Beyond being a musician and composer, Wynton Marsalis is also a music teacher and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Honors -
9 Grammy Awards 
Only musician to win a Grammy in jazz & classical categories in same year
Pulitzer Prize for Music - Blood on the Fields
National Medal of Arts
National Humanities Medal
NEA Jazz Master 
UN Messenger of Peace (named in 2001)

7 million copies of albums sold worldwide
Wynton has toured 30 countries on all but one continent (being Antarctica)

Louis Armstrong Memorial Medal 
Arts Education Medal 

Inducted into the American Academy of Achievement 

Honors in the Netherlands, France, Spain, and the UK

Honorary degrees from several prestigious universities

Wynton Marsalis discography - Wikipedia


Chris Botti honored Miles Davis.  Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong are inspirations to Wynton.  So much more could have been written in this entry but first admire his impressive honors and second enjoy a rather captivating live performance spotlighting only the best in the present day.

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