Personal Info
Known For
Sound
Known Credits
66
Gender
Male
Birthday
1961-10-18 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Also Known As
Wynton L. Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Biography
Wynton Learson Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical during the same year.
