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Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States.
Marsalis is the son of jazz musician Ellis Marsalis, Jr. (pianist), grandson of Ellis Marsalis, Sr., and brother of Branford Marsalis (saxophonist), Delfeayo Marsalis (trombonist), Mboya, and Jason Marsalis (drummer).

He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Wynton has expanded the vocabulary for jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.

Early Years
Wynton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961, to Ellis and Dolores Marsalis, the second of six sons. At an early age he exhibited a superior aptitude for music and a desire to participate in American

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Wynton Marsalis

American jazz musician (born 1961)

Wynton Marsalis
Marsalis at the Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center Seventh Annual Jazz Festival in 2009
Birth name	Wynton Learson Marsalis
Born	(1961-10-18) October 18, 1961 (age 63) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, post-bop, mainstream, dixieland, classical
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, educator, artistic director
Instrument	Trumpet
Discography	Wynton Marsalis discography
Years active	1980–present
Labels	Columbia, Sony, Blue Note, Marsalis Music
Website	wyntonmarsalis.org

Musical artist

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorioBlood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and

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Wynton Marsalis

New Orleans-born trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (1961), one of the most popular jazz musicians of all time, was educated to classical music but, after joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1980), adopted the hard-bop trumpet styles of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard, as mediated by the sound of Miles Davis' acoustic quintet of the 1960s, and flirted with the spirit of the swing era. He became the ultimate neo-traditionalist with Wynton Marsalis (august 1981), whose best compositions (Father Time and Twilight) were performed by a quintet with pianist Kenny Kirkland and his saxophonist brother Branford Marsalis (although the others featured Miles Davis's rhythm section of pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams).

The mediocre Think Of One (february 1983), with Knozz-Moe-King featuring the quintet with Branford Marsali, Kirkland and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts, and the terrible Hot House Flowers (may 1984) introduced a more cynical entertainer, more interested in melodic standards for atmospheric background