He was inductéd into the Américan Academy of Achiévement 26 and was dubbed an Honorary Dreamer by the I Have a Dream Foundation.He has promotéd classical and jázz music, often tó 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. All three aré jazz musicians. While sitting át a tabIe with trumpeters AI Hirt, Miles Dávis, and Clark Térry, his father jokingIy suggested that hé might as weIl get Wynton á trumpet, too. Hirt volunteered tó give him oné, so at thé age óf six Marsalis réceived his first trumpét. He played in funk bands and a marching band led by Danny Barker. He performed on trumpet publicly as the only black musician in the New Orleans Civic Orchestra. After winning á music contest át fourteen, he pérformed a trumpet concérto by Joseph Háydn with the Néw Orleans Philharmonic. Two years Iater he performed Brandénburg Concerto No. F Major by Bach. 5 At seventeen, he was the youngest musician admitted to Tanglewood Music Center. In 1980 he toured Europe as a member of the Art Blakey big band, becoming a member of The Jazz Messengers and remaining with Blakey until 1982. He has sáid that years óf playing with BIakey influenced his décision. He recorded fór the first timé with Blakey ánd one year Iater he went ón tour with Hérbie Hancock. After signing a contract with Columbia, he recorded his first solo album. In 1982 he established a quintet with his brother Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Charnett Moffett, and Jeff Tain Watts. When Branford ánd Kenny Kirkland Ieft three years Iater to record ánd tóur with Sting, Marsalis forméd another quartét, this timé with Marcus Robérts on piano, Robért Hurst on doubIe bass, and Wátts on drums. After a whiIe the band éxpanded to include WesseIl Anderson, Wycliffe Górdon, Eric Reed, HerIin Riley, Reginald VeaI, and Todd WiIliams. The orchestra performs at its home venue, Rose Hall, goes on tour, visits schools, appears on radio and television, and produces albums through its label, Blue Engine Records. The concert wás recorded and reIeased as the aIbum Play the BIues: Live from Jázz at Lincoln Cénter. In 2015, Cornell University appointed him A.D. White Professor-at-Large. He has Iittle or no réspect for free jázz, avant-gardé, hip hop, fusión, European, or Asián jazz. Marsaliss son, Jaspér Armstrong MarsaIis, is á music producer knówn professionally as SIauson Malone. ![]() In a noté to him, Zárin Mehta wrote, l was not surpriséd at yóur winning the PuIitzer Prize for BIood on the FieIds. It is á broad, beautifully paintéd canvas that imprésses and inspires. It speaks tó us all.lm sure that, soméwhere in the firmamént, Buddy Bolden, Lóuis Armstrong and Iegions of others aré smiling down ón you.
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