Composer
Wynton Marsalis
American jazz musician and educator
b. 1961
18 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1961
- Birthplace
- New Orleans
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, music instructor, and 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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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- composer; jazz trumpeter; bandleader; conductor; classical trumpeter; trumpeter; jazz musician; musician
- Education
- Juilliard School; Benjamin Franklin High School; New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)
- Teachers
- William Vacchiano
- Career institutions / employers
- Jazz at Lincoln Center
- Recorded memberships
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Instruments played
- trumpet
- Genres
- jazz; blues; Dixieland jazz; classical music; neo-bop jazz
- Awards
- James Parks Morton Interfaith Award; Pulitzer Prize for Music; Order of Friendship; National Humanities Medal; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; honorary doctor of Harvard University; honorary doctor of the University of Miami; NEA Jazz Masters; BBC Jazz Awards; Ken Burns American Heritage Prize; Global Citizen Awards; honorary doctor of University of Lyon-III
- Official website
- https://wyntonmarsalis.org
- Birth name
- Wynton Learson Marsalis
- Languages used
- English
- VIAF ID
- 17408121
- ISNI
- 0000000080969276; 0000000368492550
- GND ID
- 119425815
- Library of Congress ID
- n83131637
- MusicBrainz ID
- 0d74dcc7-5684-4695-830f-a9846aad8ba9
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Trumpet, Piano, Choir
- Genres represented
- Jazz, pop
- Source entries with composition dates
- 0
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
| Title | Work details | Listed instruments | Sheet music |
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| The Lord's Prayer | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| It's Easy to Remember | See work details |
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| Star Dust | See work details |
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| I Can't Get Started | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Skylark | See work details |
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| Street of Dreams | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| April in Paris | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| A Foggy Day | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Who Can I Turn To | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Linus and Lucy - Piano | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| For All We Know | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Caravan | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| The Song is You | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Autumn Leaves | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Cherokee | See work details |
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| Django | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| When You Wish Upon A Star | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Jump | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 17408121. Portrait: Eric Delmar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.