Wynton Marsalis

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1961-10-18 (63 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.

Known For

Sound

2021
In a Different Key

as Original Music Composer

2019
Bolden

as Original Music Composer

2019
2016
2011
Prohibition

as Original Music Composer

2011
Prohibition

as Music Arranger

1990
Tune in Tomorrow...

as Original Music Composer

1990
1989

Actor

2022
Hargrove

as Self

2020
2017
Chasing Trane

as Self - Musician

2015
Song of Lahore

as Himself

2014
2010
Masterclass

as Self

2006
The N Word

as Self

2005
2005
Iconoclasts

as Self

2001
Jazz

as Self

2000
Soul Food

as Self

1999
Trumpet Kings

as Himself

1996
1990
Tune in Tomorrow...

as The Wynton Marsalis Band

1971

Producer

2019
Bolden

as Executive Producer