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Wynton Marsalis | Wynton Marsalis American Jazz | Wynton Marsalis Artistic Director of Jazz  | Branford Marsalis |  Robert Mathis

Wynton Marsalis born October 18, 1961, is an American Jazz and classical music trumpeter and composer. He is Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted the appreciation of Classical and Jazz music, often focusing on young audiences.

As a Jazz performer and composer he is noted as a virtuoso erudite about jazz and jazz history who is also a Classical virtuoso. As of 2006, he has made sixteen classical and more than thirty jazz recordings, has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Music for a jazz recording.

Marsalis assembled his own band and performed over 120 concerts every year for ten consecutive years. Through an extensive series of performances, lectures, and music workshops, Marsalis helped generate interest in an art form that had lost much of its artistic substance. As he focused attention on older jazz musicians, many record companies had re-issued out-of-print recordings from their catalogues. Many students of Marsalis’s workshops, and collaborators have included James Carter, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Harry Connick, Jr. (Marsalis plays on Connick’s album 30, and Your Songs), Nicholas Payton, Eric Reed and Eric Lewis. Marsalis has been commissioned to compose for Dance companies including Garth Fagan Dance, Peter Martins at the New York City Ballet, Twyla Tharp for the American Ballet Theatre, and also for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.

Wynton sits on the Advisory Committee of the Board of Directors of The Jazz Foundation of America. Wynton has continued to work with the Jazz Foundation to save the homes and the lives of America’s elderly jazz and blues musicians including musicians that survived Hurricane Katrina. His organization Jazz at Lincoln Center has raised funding through “High Ground Campaign”  to assist the Jazz Foundation of America in aiding musicians affected by Katrina giving a total of $3,000,000 since 2001.

Marsalis has helped raise awareness of Aung San Suu Kyi and human rights violations in Burma through concerts working with the Freedom Campaign and the US Campaign for Burma. Past music events have also included R.E.M., Damien Rice, and the the Black Eyed Peas.

Marsalis has toured 30 countries on every continent except Antarctica, and nearly five million copies of his recordings have been sold worldwide. As of 2006, United Artists is considering releasing a feature film biopic on Marsalis, with Will Smith widely purported to be in consideration for the role.

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