American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)

Wynton Marsalis

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American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Awards Received
James Parks Morton Interfaith Award
Pulitzer Prize for Music
Order of Friendship
National Humanities Medal
AAAS Fellow
honorary doctor of Harvard University
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Member of, past and present

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) 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 at least 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 jazz and classical during the same year.