Jazz Style - Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis

 

b. October 18, 1961

American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor

Artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center

Composer for modern classical music with the Philadelphia Orchestra

Director of the Julliard Jazz Studies program

Actively involved in promoting classical and jazz music

Honors & Awards -

9 Grammys (Only musician to have won a Grammy in both jazz & classical in the same year)

Pulitzer Prize for Music*

*Blood on the Fields - oratorio!

!Musical composition with text for choir, soloist, or orchestra

National Medal of Arts

National Humanities Medal 

NEA Jazz Master (National Endowment for the Arts)

UN Messenger of Peace

Louis Armstrong Memorial Medal 

Frederick Douglass Medallion

Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music (highest honor for a non-British citizen)

Knight in the Order of Arts by the French Ministry of Culture

Honorary degrees -

Frost School of Music at the University of Miami 

University of Scranton

Kenyon College

New York University

Columbia University

Connecticut College

Harvard University

Howard University

Northwestern University

Princeton University

State University of New York

University of Michigan

7 million copies of Wynton Marsalis's recordings have been sold worldwide

Wynton has toured in 30 countries and every continent except Antarctica.

1995 -

Wynton hosted Marsalis on Music on public television

NPR broadcasted Wynton's series Making the Music 

Both programs received the George Foster Peabody Award (highest award given in journalism)

Inducted into the American Academy of Achievement

Influences - 

Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, to name a few

Discography

(Wikipedia)