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“I want this concerto to enable Mike to convey the broad depth of feeling and joy of discovery that defines our proud legacy as trumpeters.” Consisting of six movements, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra navigates the diverse history of the trumpet: starting in the jungle with nature’s first trumpeter, the elephant; then, on to the legacy of Louis Armstrong, further to the Afro-Hispanic diaspora in the Americas and the regality of the trumpet in the French tradition, in the blues and the Eastern European Jewish tradition, and also the role of trumpet in the universal ‘joker’ trope.

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Throughout his career, Marsalis has taken on an inexhaustible advocatory role for jazz music.

His contributions to the classical and jazz canons are significant, and many of which are genre-bending. That you pay attention to detail, that don’t mind practising and putting yourself in whatever situation you have to be in to learn how to play.”

Winton Marsalis is unique in the world of music as a superstar of both classical and jazz.

Wynton continued his studies there as he entered Benjamin D. Franklin High School. Also within the past two years, Wynton has premiered a bassoon quartet (4 Bassoons Talking, 2021), his fanfare Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! He enrolled in the fall of 1979.

While a student at Juilliard, Marsalis quickly began to take note of the flourishing jazz scene that was transpiring in New York.

Back then, Wynton started to realize the connection between music and people’s experience, which they bring into it.

Wynton received his first trumpet as a gift from his father’s friend at the age of six. That list included, but was not limited to, Stanley Crouch, Albert Murray, Gordon Davis, Diane Coffey, and Jonathan Rose.

American art form on the world stage.

Marsalis and Battle recorded the record with the esteemed Orchestra of St. Luke’s

To date, Marsalis has recorded 20 classical records, all to critical acclaim. Yet Marsalis’ work continued to surprise and captivate audiences throughout the decade and into the 1990s. Whomp! It is narrated by actor Wendell Pierce, includes vocals from Camille Thurman, Christie Dashiell, Doug Wamble, and Ashley Pezzotti, and the instrumentals of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

In 2021, he premiered his Tuba concerto, commissioned by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and composed for the all-star tubist Carol Jantsch.

(a program for kids ages 8 months to 5 years), Essentially Ellington (an annual High School jazz band competition & festival that reaches over 2000 bands in 50 states and Canada), The Jack Rudin Jazz Championship (an annual college jazz band competition) and an adult educational concert series titled “Journey through Jazz.”

Marsalis as an Educator

When Wynton was nearing the end of high school, he was accepted to some of the world’s top academic institutions: Harvard, Yale, and The Juilliard School.

The New York Urban League awarded Wynton with the Frederick Douglass Medallion for distinguished leadership, and the American Arts Council presented him with the Arts Education Award. She challenged him by demanding, “What is the substance of your education?”

Marsalis took this lesson to heart. Under Blue Engine, Marsalis has recorded 23 albums and nine singles.

Today, Marsalis is continuing the renaissance that he first sparked in the early 1980s, attracting new generations of young talent to jazz while also maintaining the mythic meanings in the jazz tradition.

Marsalis has been called the ‘pied piper’ of jazz and the “Doctor of Swing.” Since his recording debut in 1982, he has released 110 jazz and classical recordings and won many awards—both significant and trivial.

Renowned jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard and actor Wendell Pierce were among the talented and driven students who attended NOCCA with Wynton.

When he turned 14, Marsalis performed with the New Orleans Philharmonic. Marsalis is the author of seven books, including two children’s books.

Marsalis’ vision and passionate leadership were essential to the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home— Frederick P.

Rose Hall—the world’s first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened its doors in October 2004.

Wynton Marsalis’ core beliefs for living are based on the principles of jazz: individual creativity (improvisation), collective cooperation (swing), gratitude and good manners (sophistication), and stubborn optimism (the blues).