Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis is known for playing both beatiful classical music, and original jazz improvisatios.Being born in New Orleans, louisiana, in his youth he was always surrounded by the New Orleans style of jazz. His father, Ellis Marsalis, was a gifted professional jazz musician and teacher. Ellis was influential in Wynton's musical development and encouraged his son to respect the tradition of jazz. Wynton's brothers, Branford and Delfeayo, also became professional musicians. Beginning with trumpet lessons at the age of 12, Wynton went on to attend the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, in Massachusetts, and the Juilliard School of Music, in New York City. At the age of 19 he toured with jazz drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers band. And from there he became famous playing both classical and jazz music. In fact he became the first musician to win Grammy awards for both classical, and jazz in the music categories .In 1984 Marsalis became the first musician to win Grammy s

ic categories in the same year, and in 1997 he became the first artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for music.


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