Wynton Marsalis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wynton Marsalis
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Oct 18, 1961(1961-10-18)
Age	63
Birthplace	New Orleans
Country	United States
Birth City	Louisiana
Horoscope	Libra

Wynton Marsalis Biography

Wynton Marsalis is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on October 18, 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. A classical and jazz trumpeter as well as educator, who received with the Pulitzer Prize for Music for “Blood on the Fields,” his 1997 oratorio. It is the first time that a jazz record of this type was awarded the Pulitzer.

They and He and Miles Davis carried on a longstanding feud, with Davis kicking Marsalis off the stage during a performance after Marsalis tried to unexpectedly join the proceedings. carried an ongoing feud that lasted for years that culminated in Davis throwing Marsalis off scene during an appearance when Marsalis attempted to be a part of the performance.

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 won at least nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in jazz and classical during the same year.

Jazz critic Scott Yanow regards Marsalis as talented but criticized his “selective knowledge of jazz history” and has said that Marsalis considers “post-1965 avant-garde playing to be outside of jazz and 1970s fusion to be barren” and the unfortunate result of the “somewhat eccentric beliefs of Stanley Crouch”. In The New York Times in 1997, pianist Keith Jarrett said Marsalis “imitates other people’s styles too well…His music sounds like a high school trumpet player to me”.

His father was a jazz musician Ellis Marsalis, Jr. and siblings, Branford, a saxophonist, Delfeayo, a trombonist, Mboya, and Jason drummer, have all received different degrees of recognition for their musical talent.

Wynton Marsalis Net Worth

Wynton Marsalis is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wynton Marsalis 's net worth $15 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was able to graduate with the 3.98 GPA from Benjamin Franklin High School and was the youngest musician ever to join the Tanglewood’s Berkshire Music Center.

He was the producer and on-screen commentator on Ken Burns’ “Jazz” documentary in 2001, for which he faced a lot of criticism and debate.

Marsalis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961 and grew up in the suburb of Kenner. He is the second of six sons born to Dolores Ferdinand and Ellis Marsalis Jr., a pianist and music teacher. He was named for jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. Branford Marsalis is his older brother and Jason Marsalis and Delfeayo Marsalis are younger. All three are jazz musicians. While sitting at a table with trumpeters Al Hirt, Miles Davis, and Clark Terry, his father jokingly suggested that he might as well get Wynton a trumpet, too. Hirt volunteered to give him one, so at the age of six Marsalis received his first trumpet.

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Who is Wynton Marsalis Dating?

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He has received honorary degrees from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami (1994), Kenyon College (2019), New York University, Columbia, Connecticut College, Harvard, Howard, Northwestern, Princeton, Vermont, and the State University of New York.

Facts & Trivia

Wynton Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Wynton Marsalis celebrates birthday on October 18 of every year.

He won the Dutch Edison Award and the French Grand Prix du Disque. The Mayor of Vitoria, Spain, gave him the city’s Gold Medal, its most coveted distinction. In 1996, Britain’s senior conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, made him an honorary member, the Academy’s highest decoration for a non-British citizen. The city of Marciac, France, erected a bronze statue in his honor. The French Ministry of Culture gave him the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Literature. In 2008 he received France’s highest distinction, the insignia Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

What happened Wynton Marsalis?

In December 2011, Marsalis was named cultural correspondent for CBS This Morning. He is a member of the CuriosityStream Advisory Board. He serves as director of the Juilliard Jazz Studies program. In 2015, Cornell University appointed him A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

Is Wynton Marsalis married?

Marsalis himself, who has never married , has four children.

What is Wynton Marsalis most famous song?

• Jig’s Jig. 8:47.
• Root Groove. 3:48.
• I Got Lost In Her Arms. 5:03.
• Where or When. 2:49.
• Cherokee. 2:21.
• Black Codes. 9:31.
• Double Rondo On the River (Pedro’s Getaway) 9:24.
• Down Home With Homey. 11:54.

Why is Wynton Marsalis important?

Wynton Marsalis is a prolific and inventive composer. He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. He has also composed a violin concerto and four symphonies to introduce new rhythms to the classical music canon.

What does the name Marsalis mean?

Gender: Boy. Meaning: A form of Marcellus which means ‘little soldier’ or ‘warlike’ Origin: Italian, Latin.