
Wynton Marsalis
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Known forSound
GenderMale
Birthday18 October 1961 (64 years old)
Place of birthNew Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Known credits72
Biography
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. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his 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. Marsalis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961, and grew up in the sub…

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024 · Self

Jazz 100
2023 · self

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022 · Self

Hargrove
2022 · Self

Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
2021 · Self - musician

In a Different Key
2021 · Original Music Composer

A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration
2020 · Self

A World Without Beethoven?
2020 · Self

Find Your Groove
2020 · Self

Topowa! Never Give Up
2020 · Self

Motherless Brooklyn
2019 · Musician

Bolden
2019 · Original Music Composer

Bolden
2019 · Executive Producer
Wynton Marsalis Quintet: Jazz in Marciac
2018 · Self - Trumpet

The Great American Read
2018 · Self

Chasing Trane
2017 · Self - Musician

Tony Bennett Celebrates 90
2016 · Self

Jackie Robinson
2016 · Original Music Composer

Song of Lahore
2015 · Self

Brownie Speaks
2014 · Self
Sarah's Music: Contemporary Classical
2014 · Self

Concerto Ellington-Marsalis
2014 · Music

VA - Jazz Intermezzo Vol.1
2013 · Self (archive footage)

Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story
2012 · Music

Prohibition
2011 · Original Music Composer

Prohibition
2011 · Music Arranger

Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues - Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center
2011 · Self

Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues - Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center
2011 · Producer

On the Shoulders of Giants
2011

Masterclass
2010 · Self

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis Play the Music of Ray Charles
2009 · Self - Trumpet and Vocals

Let Freedom Swing: Conversations on Jazz and Democracy
2009 · Self

Tootie's Last Suit
2009 · Self

Willie Nelson / Wynton Marsalis - Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
2008 · Musicien

Wynton Marsallis and JALC Orchestra - Congo Square
2008 · Self

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
2008 · Self - Interviewee / Self - Musician

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
2008 · Executive Producer

Live from Abbey Road: Best of Season 1
2006 · Self

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006 · Self

The N Word
2006 · Self

Iconoclasts
2005 · Self

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005 · Self

Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?
2005 · Campbell (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2005 · Original Music Composer

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self

The Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration
2003 · Self - trumpet

Wynton Marsalis - Blues & Swing
2002 · Self

It's Black Entertainment
2002 · Self
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