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Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, musician, educator, and composer, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and received his first trumpet from renowned musician Al Hirt at the age of six. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, in both jazz and classical categories, and is the only artist to have won Grammy Awards in five consecutive years, from 1983 to 1987. In 1997, Marsalis’s oratorio on slavery and freedom, Blood on the Fields, became the first and, to date, only jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize in music.

Books by Wynton Marsalis

Moving to Higher Ground

In this beautiful book, the great jazz performer and personality, famous from PBS, world tours, etc., shows you how an understanding of jazz can change how you -- how people and nations -- can improvise together a more meaningful way of living.

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To a Young Jazz Musician

Now in paperback, the great jazz performer and teacher Wynton Marsalis shares his views on the principles of jazz, and offers valuable meditations on one's development both personal and musical.

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