Biography
1961 | Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | |
1967 | Received first trumpet at age six from Al Hirt | |
1975 | Performed with the New Orleans Philharmonic | |
1979 | Entered The Juilliard School | |
1980 | Joined Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers with Branford Marsalis | |
1981 | First visit to Japan as a member of the Herbie Hancock Quartet Assembled his own band, the Wynton Marsalis Quintet |
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1982 | First album, Wynton Marsalis | |
1983 | First artist to win both jazz and classical Grammy Awards in the same year for Haydn, Hummel, L. Mozart: Trumpet Concertos and Think of One | |
1987 | Co-founded the first jazz program at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | |
1991 | Jazz at Lincoln Center became an official department of Lincoln Center | |
1992 | Recorded his first dance score, Citi Movement | |
1996 | Jazz at Lincoln Center became an official constituent organization of Lincoln Center | |
1997 | The Pulitzer Prize for Blood on the Fields (first jazz musician to win) | |
2001 | Messenger of Peace, United Nations | |
2004 | The “House of Swing” – Frederick P. Rose Hall— opened at Jazz at Lincoln Center; the first full-scale facility dedicated to jazz performance, education and broadcasting. | |
2005 | The National Medal of Arts, USA | |
2009 | Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, France Honorary Doctor of Music from Harvard University |
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2011 | The Marsalis Family won the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award, USA | |
2014 | Director of Jazz Studies, The Juilliard School | |
2015 | The National Humanities Medal, USA | |
2015-22 | A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University | |
2020 | Released the epic jazz parable The Ever Fonky Lowdown featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wendell Pierce, Camille Thurman and others | |
2021 | The Democracy! Suite, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet World Premiere of Concerto for Tubist and Orchestra with Carol Jantsch and The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
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2022 | SFJAZZ Lifetime Achievement Award | |
2023 | Black Codes (From the Underground) was added to the National Recording Registry in the US Library of Congress Concert tour, Wynton Marsalis Septet in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka) World Premiere of Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra with Michael Sachs and The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst |