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A
fixture on the American cultural scene, Wynton Marsalis
has brought jazz back to center stage in the United
States. Wynton began studying trumpet seriously at age
twelve. While a student at the Juilliard School of Music,
he became a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Since his self-titled debut, Wynton's numerous jazz
and classical recordings have sold millions of copies
worldwide and he has earned eight Grammys. He has taken
his jazz groups to 30 countries on six continents, averaging
more than 120 concerts per year. In 1997, Wynton became
the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize in
music, for his epic oratorio on the subject of slavery,
"Blood on the Fields."
Wynton also
serves as artistic director for the internationally
recognized Jazz at Lincoln Center program, which he
co-founded in 1987. Wynton has been awarded the Grand
Prix du Disque of France and the Edison Award of the
Netherlands, and was elected an honorary member of England's
Royal Academy of Music in recognition of the many hours
he has contributed to music education, community organizations
and charities. He has been the subject of cover stories
for Life, Time, Parade, The New York Times Magazine,
The Sunday Los Angeles Times Calendar, London Times
magazine and Esquire (UK), and has had numerous appearances
on the covers of Jazz Times, Downbeat and Jazziz. In
1996, Time magazine named him among America's 25 most
influential people.
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