PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Marsalis Jazzed About Genre's Future

Wynton Marsalis hardly needs an introduction. One of the most brilliant jazz trumpeters of our time, he's also an accomplished classical musician, composer and jazz historian. Before he won nine Grammy Awards, before he became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize in music for his epic oratorio "Blood on the Fields," and before he established Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis was born to a New Orleans music teacher, the second of six sons. He received his first trumpet at age 6 from ...

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