Album: Three Favourite Concertos by Wynton Marsalis (1985)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1980s, Album


Album: Resolution to Swing by Wynton Marsalis (1993)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album


Album: Baroque Music for Trumpets (English Chamber Orchestra feat. trumpet: Wynton Marsalis, conductor: Raymond Leppard) by Wynton Marsalis (1988)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1980s, Album


Album: Sweet Release & Ghost Story by Wynton Marsalis (1999)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album


Album: Soul Gestures 1: Thick in the South by Wynton Marsalis (1991)
Genre: Jazz
Record Label: Columbia
Format: Album

Description: Thick in the South: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 1 is an album by Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1991. Part one of the blues cycle was recorded by Marsalis and his quintet with guest appearances by Joe Henderson and Elvin Jones

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album, Columbia


Thick in the South: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 1 is an album by Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1991. Part one of the blues cycle was recorded by Marsalis and his quintet with guest appearances by Joe Henderson and Elvin Jones

Album: Marsalis Standard Time, Volume 1 by Wynton Marsalis (1987)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1980s, Album


Album: Haydn / L. Mozart / Hummel: Trumpet Concertos by Wynton Marsalis (1983)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1980s, Album


Album: Wynton Marsalis by Wynton Marsalis (1981)
Genre: Jazz
Record Label: Columbia
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1980s, Album, Columbia

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Album: Standard Time, Volume 5: The Midnight Blues by Wynton Marsalis (1998)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album


Album: Crescent City Christmas Card by Wynton Marsalis (1989)
Genre: Jazz | Mood: Cheerful
Record Label: Columbia
Format: Album

Description: Crescent City Christmas Card is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1989. The album reached a peak position of number fourteen on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, Cheerful, 1980s, Album, Columbia

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Crescent City Christmas Card is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1989. The album reached a peak position of number fourteen on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.

Album: Standard Time, Volume 6: Mr. Jelly Lord by Wynton Marsalis (1999)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album


Album: The London Concert by Wynton Marsalis (1994)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album


Album: Joe Cool's Blues by Wynton Marsalis (1995)
Genre: Jazz
Record Label: Columbia
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album, Columbia

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Album: Standard Time, Volume 3: The Resolution of Romance by Wynton Marsalis (1990)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album


Album: At the Octoroon Balls by Wynton Marsalis (1999)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Album: Think of One by Wynton Marsalis (1983)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1980s, Album


Album: Baroque Duet by Wynton Marsalis (1992)
Genre: Jazz
Record Label: Sony Classical
Format: Album

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album, Sony Classical


Album: Black Codes (From the Underground) by Wynton Marsalis (1985)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Album

Description: Black Codes (From the Underground) is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that won two Grammy Awards in 1986: Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group and Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist.

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1980s, Album

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Black Codes (From the Underground) is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that won two Grammy Awards in 1986: Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group and Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist.

Album: In Gabriel's Garden (English Chamber Orchestra) by Wynton Marsalis (1996)
Genre: Classical
Format: Album

Description: The sumptuous acoustic environment of St. Giles Cripplegate in London, a baroque church where John Milton, the author of PARADISE LOST, was once the organist, was the recording studio for this wide-ranging tour of baroque music by French, English, Italian, and German composers, including Henry Purcell, Giuseppe Torelli, and J.S. Bach. The sessions were so exhilarating, conductor Anthony Newman reports, that the soloists and orchestra “stayed up well into the night discussing the day’s work.” One listen, and you’ll understand why they were too excited to fall asleep.

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Classical, 1990s, Album


The sumptuous acoustic environment of St. Giles Cripplegate in London, a baroque church where John Milton, the author of PARADISE LOST, was once the organist, was the recording studio for this wide-ranging tour of baroque music by French, English, Italian, and German composers, including Henry Purcell, Giuseppe Torelli, and J.S. Bach. The sessions were so exhilarating, conductor Anthony Newman reports, that the soloists and orchestra “stayed up well into the night discussing the day’s work.” One listen, and you’ll understand why they were too excited to fall asleep.

Album: Standard Time, Volume 2: Intimacy Calling by Wynton Marsalis (1991)
Genre: Jazz
Record Label: Columbia
Format: Album

Description: Interpreting classic ballads by the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, and Thelonious Monk, among others, and his own “Indelible and Nocturnal,” Wynton explores how intimacy calls lovers not just to romance, but to the thrill of mutual self-discovery. Joining him on these late 1980s sessions are Marcus Roberts on piano, Todd Williams and Wes Anderson on saxophones, Reginald Veal or Bob Hurst on bass, and Herlin Riley or Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums. Among this recording’s many treasures, don’t miss Wynton’s powerful muted trumpet work on “When It’s Sleepytime Down South,” “Indelible and Nocturnal,” and “Lover.”

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Album, Columbia


Interpreting classic ballads by the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, and Thelonious Monk, among others, and his own “Indelible and Nocturnal,” Wynton explores how intimacy calls lovers not just to romance, but to the thrill of mutual self-discovery. Joining him on these late 1980s sessions are Marcus Roberts on piano, Todd Williams and Wes Anderson on saxophones, Reginald Veal or Bob Hurst on bass, and Herlin Riley or Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums. Among this recording’s many treasures, don’t miss Wynton’s powerful muted trumpet work on “When It’s Sleepytime Down South,” “Indelible and Nocturnal,” and “Lover.”

Album: The Majesty of the Blues by Wynton Marsalis (1989)
Genre: Jazz
Record Label: Columbia
Format: Album

Description: The Majesty of the Blues is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1989.
Background

The first two selections on the album are played by the Wynton Marsalis Sextet.

The remaining three tracks (side B on the original LP release), a set entitled "New Orleans Function", feature the sextet with additional New Orleans musicians in a style influenced by the traditional New Orleans brass band. This section mirrors a traditional jazz funeral, with a dirge-like first selection ("The Death of Jazz"), then a spoken word section ("Premature Autopsies", an essay by Stanley Crouch performed by Jeremiah Wright) and preached like a minister at a graveyard, and a second line number ("Oh, But on the Third Day – Happy Feet Blues").

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 1980s, Album, Columbia


The Majesty of the Blues is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1989.
Background

The first two selections on the album are played by the Wynton Marsalis Sextet.

The remaining three tracks (side B on the original LP release), a set entitled "New Orleans Function", feature the sextet with additional New Orleans musicians in a style influenced by the traditional New Orleans brass band. This section mirrors a traditional jazz funeral, with a dirge-like first selection ("The Death of Jazz"), then a spoken word section ("Premature Autopsies", an essay by Stanley Crouch performed by Jeremiah Wright) and preached like a minister at a graveyard, and a second line number ("Oh, But on the Third Day – Happy Feet Blues").

Album: Play the Blues: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center by Wynton Marsalis (2011)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Live

Description: United by dalliances with purism as young men and an abiding love of classic blues and jazz, Eric Clapton and Wynton Marsalis are a more comfortable fit than it may initially seem. Both musicians are synthesists, not innovators, stitching together elements from their idols in an attempt to preserve the past while bringing it into the present, so their sensibilities are aligned and, in 2011, they’re amenable to a partnership that explores their common ground. So, Clapton and Marsalis held a series of concerts at New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center in April of 2011, the guitarist selecting the songs (apart from “Layla,” performed upon the request of bassist Carlos Henriquez), the trumpeter picking the band and working up the arrangements, using King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band as his template yet finding room for piano and, of course, guitar. Clapton’s choice of songs leans heavily toward the '20s -- so much so that the dip into postwar electric blues via Howlin’ Wolf’s “Forty Four” feels a bit of a shock -- and the arrangements are faithful to classic New Orleans jazz yet loose, never quite hidebound to tradition and finding plenty of space for every one of the players to roam; Clapton and Marsalis surely solo plenty, but so do trombonist Chris Crenshaw, clarinetist Victor Goines, and pianist Dan Nimmer. There’s not much ego on display -- even the inclusion of “Layla” doesn’t feel forced, thanks to Marsalis’ inventive New Orleans funeral arrangement of this overly familiar tune -- but the joy is palpable and the chemistry natural. Compared to Wynton’s duet albums with Willie Nelson, this is both more traditional and riskier, and compared to Clapton’s latter-day duets with B.B. King and J.J. Cale, this finds the guitarist none too deferential. These are consummate musicians united by playing music they love, and their passion resonates so strongly it’s hard not to enjoy Clapton and Marsalis playing the blues. 

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 2010s, Live

Additional Context: Rating score: 8. Based on 1 votes


United by dalliances with purism as young men and an abiding love of classic blues and jazz, Eric Clapton and Wynton Marsalis are a more comfortable fit than it may initially seem. Both musicians are synthesists, not innovators, stitching together elements from their idols in an attempt to preserve the past while bringing it into the present, so their sensibilities are aligned and, in 2011, they’re amenable to a partnership that explores their common ground. So, Clapton and Marsalis held a series of concerts at New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center in April of 2011, the guitarist selecting the songs (apart from “Layla,” performed upon the request of bassist Carlos Henriquez), the trumpeter picking the band and working up the arrangements, using King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band as his template yet finding room for piano and, of course, guitar. Clapton’s choice of songs leans heavily toward the '20s -- so much so that the dip into postwar electric blues via Howlin’ Wolf’s “Forty Four” feels a bit of a shock -- and the arrangements are faithful to classic New Orleans jazz yet loose, never quite hidebound to tradition and finding plenty of space for every one of the players to roam; Clapton and Marsalis surely solo plenty, but so do trombonist Chris Crenshaw, clarinetist Victor Goines, and pianist Dan Nimmer. There’s not much ego on display -- even the inclusion of “Layla” doesn’t feel forced, thanks to Marsalis’ inventive New Orleans funeral arrangement of this overly familiar tune -- but the joy is palpable and the chemistry natural. Compared to Wynton’s duet albums with Willie Nelson, this is both more traditional and riskier, and compared to Clapton’s latter-day duets with B.B. King and J.J. Cale, this finds the guitarist none too deferential. These are consummate musicians united by playing music they love, and their passion resonates so strongly it’s hard not to enjoy Clapton and Marsalis playing the blues. 

Album: Popular Songs - The Best of Wynton Marsalis by Wynton Marsalis (2001)
Genre: Jazz
Record Label: Columbia
Format: Compilation

Description: This superb sampler of Marsalis performances recorded between 1985 and 1999 contains eight originals and four jazz standards, from the New Orleans-flavored “Jig’s Jig” and the bluesy “Root Groove” to ballads like “I Got Lost in Her Arms” and “Where or When.” The music shifts into blistering up tempos on “Cherokee” and the burning “Black Codes” by Wynton’s remarkable mid-’80s quintet.

Artist Background: Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, 2000s, Compilation, Columbia


This superb sampler of Marsalis performances recorded between 1985 and 1999 contains eight originals and four jazz standards, from the New Orleans-flavored “Jig’s Jig” and the bluesy “Root Groove” to ballads like “I Got Lost in Her Arms” and “Where or When.” The music shifts into blistering up tempos on “Cherokee” and the burning “Black Codes” by Wynton’s remarkable mid-’80s quintet.

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