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Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences.
Wynton Marsalis Plays Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, and Molter (with English Chamber Orchestra) Released: November 25, 1984; Label: CBS Masterworks — —
It won two Grammy Awards in 1986: Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group and Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist. [5] The album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2023 describing it as one of Wynton's "most beloved & artistically successful recordings, hearkening back to midcentury acoustic jazz but with a ...
Wynton Marsalis is the debut album by the jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.It was released in 1982 by Columbia.It contains seven tracks, three composed by Marsalis. [1] The album peaked at number 165 on the Billboard 200 and number nine on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1 is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1987. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group in 1988. Reception
The result is a lovely, albeit minor, addition to Marsalis' rich catalog." [4] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings stated: "Marsalis plays with total authority, but the effect is still hard and oddly virginal. 'Glad to Be Unhappy' touches neither end of the spectrum convincingly, and yet as an exercise in controlled articulation ...
A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert is an 89-minute television film starring the opera singers Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade, the jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the Wynton Marsalis Septet, the American Boychoir, the Christmas Concert Chorus, the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the pianist and conductor André Previn.
Under the leadership of Marsalis, the band performs at its home in Lincoln Center, tours throughout the U.S. and abroad, visits schools, appears on television, and performs with symphony orchestras. The orchestra backed Wynton Marsalis on his album Blood on the Fields, which won the Pulitzer Prize. [1] [2] [3]