Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
18.10.1961 (63 years) (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American virtuoso trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammy Awards and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in jazz and classical during the same year.