Biography
Wynton Learson Marsalis 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. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his 1997 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.
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Awards & recognition
- Ken Burns American Heritage Prize · 2020
- Order of Friendship · 2017
- Global Citizen Awards · 2016
- honorary doctor of University of Lyon-III · 2016
- National Humanities Medal · 2015
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- honorary doctor of Harvard University · 2009
- Pulitzer Prize — Music · 1997
- honorary doctor of the University of Miami · 1994
- BBC Jazz Awards
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- James Parks Morton Interfaith Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
Filmography23 titles
Jackie Robinson
Prohibition
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Iconoclasts
Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
Jazz
A World Without Beethoven?
Hargrove
Saturday Night Live
Song of Lahore
Motherless Brooklyn
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
The Daily Show
On the Shoulders of Giants
Real Time with Bill Maher
Great Performances
Bolden
In a Different Key
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.