Wynton Marsalis Bio, Age, Wife, Children, Trumphet, Tour, Net Worth
Wynton Marsalis born Wynton Learson Marsalis is an American virtuoso trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Wynton Marsalis Age
Marsalis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961.
Wynton Marsalis Wife|Wynton Marsalis Children
Marsalis had been engaged in a single relationship. His first girlfriend’s name was Victoria Rowell. They had been in a long-term relationship. They had a son, Jasper Armstrong. Wynton had an encounter with Shirley Horn.
In total, Wynton Marsalis has 3 children, Jasper, Simeon Marsalis, and Wynton Marsalis Jr. He currently doesn’t have a wife and he is thus not married. Marsalis family are happily living together in a luxurious lifestyle in New Orleans. There are rumors about that Wynton Marsalis being gay, which is untrue as there is no single evidence about him being gay.
Wynton Marsalis Trumpet
New Monette trumpet for Wynton. Master trumpet maker, Dave Monette, came by a few weeks ago to give Wynton a new horn, the PRANA 3 STC Bb. It took him and his team over 250 hours to make and the sound is brilliant.
Wynton Marsalis Tour
Fri, 1 Nov
19:30
Urbana, IL, United States
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Sun, 10 Nov
23:00
Boston, MA, United States
Boston Symphony Hall
Wed, 13 Nov
19:30
Madison, WI, United States
Overture Center for the Arts
Fri, 15 Nov
20:00
Chicago, IL, United States
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sat, 16 Nov
20:00
Chicago, IL, United States
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sat, 23 Nov
22:00
New York, NY, United States
Damrosch Park
Sat, 30 Nov
20:00
Toronto, ON, Canada
Koerner Hall
Wed, 4 Dec
19:30
St. Louis, MO, United States
Powell Hall
Fri, 6 Dec
19:30
Lincoln, NE, United States
Lied Center for Performing Arts
Mon, 9 Dec
19:30
Dubuque, IA, United States
University of Dubuque Heritage Center
Sat, 14 Dec
19:30
Iowa City, IA, United States
Hancher Auditorium
Mon, 10 Feb
20:00
Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark
DR Koncerthuset
Wed, 12 Feb
20:00
Hamburg, Germany
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Sun, 16 Feb
20:15
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Concertgebouw
Fri, 28 Feb
21:30
Barcelona, Spain
Palau de la Música Catalana
Thu, 21 May
16:00
Washington, DC, United States
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Sat, 30 May
London, United Kingdom
Barbican Centre
Sun, 31 May
19:30
London, United Kingdom
Barbican Centre
Thu, 4 Jun
Paris, France
Paris Philharmonic
Wynton Marsalis Net Worth
Through his biography, he is a trumpeter, composer, music educator, and director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. He has a total net worth of $15 million dollars. He is credited with playing Jazz at Lincoln Center with his trumpet.
He has done several world tours and has visited more than twenty nations. He has sold numerous of copies of his recording around the world.
Wynton Marsalis Swing Symphony
When Wynton was commissioned to compose his third symphony, he took inspiration from composers like Ives, Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, and Ellington as he sought to create a musical meditation on American ideals.
The definitive performance of the resulting, critically acclaimed work Swing Symphony is now an album by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro David Robertson.
Commissioned in 2010 by the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Marsalis’s Symphony No. 3 is at once invigorating and elegiac, bombastic and introspective, and has been performed by orchestras around the world.
This recording, which took place in front of a rapturous, sold-out crowd in St. Louis’s Powell Hall, marks the very first release of a modern classic that captures the full breadth of the 20th-century orchestral music and the spirit of American optimism.
Wynton Marsalis Jr.
He is the second of six sons born to Delores Ferdinand and Ellis Marsalis Jr., a pianist and music teacher. He was named for jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. Branford Marsalis is his older brother and Jason Marsalis and Delfeayo Marsalis are younger. All three are jazz musicians.
Wynton Marsalis Movies
2019 Bolden
2009 Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis Play Ray Charles
2008 Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
1990 Tune in Tomorrow
2005 Scooby-Doo! in Where’s My Mummy?
2016 Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
2004 Unforgivable Blackness
2004 The N-Word
2006 Accent on the Off Beat
1982 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Modern Jazz at the Village Vanguard
1988 Wynton Marsalis: Blues and Swing
2011 Prohibition
2016 Jackie Robinson
2011 On the Shoulders of Giants
1989 Shannon’s Deal
2008 4Chosen: The Documentary
2007 Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Live from New York City
1992 Concert for Planet Earth: Rio de Janeiro 1992
2006 Wynton Marsalis Septet: In This House, On This Morning
2004 Jazz Life: Vol. 2: Mike Mainieri Group & Art Blakey
1998 Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog
1997 The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1
2006 Eric Lewis: Hopscotch
1989 Charles Mingus: Epitaph
Wynton Marsalis Albums
2011 Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center
1985 Black Codes (From the Underground)
2005 Live at the House of Tribes
2015 Big Band Holidays
1987 Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. I
2019 Swing Symphony
1983 Think of One
1984 Hot House Flowers
1991 Standard Time, Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling
1994 They Came To Swing
1986 J Mood
1989 The Majesty of the Blues
2008 Two Men with the Blues
1990 Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance
2004 The Magic Hour
2007 Congo Square
2017 The Music of John Lewis
1994 In This House, On This Morning
2011 Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles
2015 Live in Cuba
1999 Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord
2007 From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
2009 Christmas Jazz Jam
1992 Citi Movement (Griot New York)
1992 Blue Interlude
1998 Standard Time, Vol. 5: The Midnight Blues
1999 At the Octoroon Balls
1981 Wynton Marsalis
2002 All Rise
1997 Jump Start and Jazz
1991 Levee Low Moan: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 3
1991 Uptown Ruler: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 2
1994 The London Concert
1986 Tomasi/Jolivet Trumpet Concertos
1999 Reeltime
2010 Music Redeems
2019 Jazz and Art
1999 Sweet Release & Ghost Story
2005 Don’t Be Afraid…The Music of Charles Mingus
1984 Wynton Marsalis Plays Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, and Molter
1990 Tune in Tomorrow …
2015 Jazz Time
2004 Unforgivable Blackness
1992 A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert
2018 Una Noche Con Rubén Blades
2000 The All American Hero
Wynton Marsalis Youtube
Wynton Marsalis Jazz|wynton marsalis lincoln center
Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The organization was founded in 1987 and opened on October 2004. Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director and the leader of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
The Center hosts performances by the Orchestra and by visiting musicians. Many concerts are streamed live on the Center’s YouTube channel. The Center also presents educational programs in its home buildings, online, and in schools throughout the country.
Wynton Marsalis Daughter
Trumpeter Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra perform a jazzy “Jingle Bells,” with the help of Marsalis’ daughter, Oni Marsalis, on vocals.
Wynton Marsalis Brother|Wynton Marsalis Family
Wynton was born to father Ellis Marsalis Jr. and mother Delores Ferdinand. He is the second of six sons a pianist and a music teacher. He was named for jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. Branford Marsalis is the older brother while Jason, Mboya Kenyatta and Delfeayo are younger. They are a musical family as all three are jazz musicians. Marsalis received his first trumpet at the age of 6 from his father’s friend Al Hirt.
Wynton Marsalis Twitter
Wynton Marsalis Black Code
Black Codes (From the Underground) is an album by jazz trumpeter Marsalis that won two Grammy Awards in 1986: Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group, and Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist.
Wynton Marsalis Art Blakey
In 1980, he toured Europe as a member of the Art Blakey big band, becoming a member of The Jazz Messengers while still remaining with Blakey until 1982. He changed his mind about his career and turned to jazz. He has said that years of playing Blakey influenced his decision. He recorded for the first time with Blakey.
Wynton Marsalis Quartet
Marsalis recorded his first solo album after signing a contract with Columbia. He went on to establish a quartet in 1982 with his brother Branford, Kenny Kirkland, Charnett Moffett, and Jeff “Tain” Watts. His brother and Kenny Kirkland left to tour with Sting after just three years. This prompted Wynton to form another quartet, this time with Marcus Roberts on piano, Robert Hurst on double bass, and Watts on drums. After a while, the band expanded to include Wessell Anderson, Wycliffe Gordon, Eric Reed, Herlin Riley, Reginald Veal, and Todd Williams.
Marsalis was promoted to being the artistic director of the Center and the musical director of the band, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The orchestra performs at its home venue, Rose Hall, goes on tour, visits schools, appears on radio and television, and through Blue Engine Records, produces albums.
In 2011, Marsalis and rock guitarist Eric Clapton performed together in a Jazz at Lincoln Center concert. The concert was recorded and released as the album Play the Blues: Life from Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Marsalis Awards and Honors
Wynton Marsalis George Foster Peabody Award
Marsalis hosted the educational program Marsalis on Music on public television in the year 1995. Coincidentally, National Public Radio was also broadcasting his series Making the Music. This catapulted his name to fame, becoming a household name. Both programs won the George Foster Peabody Award, the highest award given in journalism.
Wynton Marsalis CBS This Morning
Marsalis was named cultural correspondent for CBS This Morning In December 2011. He is a member of the CuriosityStream Advisory Board.
Wynton Marsalis Juilliard
In regards to Juilliard, he serves as director of the Juilliard Jazz Studies program. In 2015, Cornell University appointed him A.D. White Professor-at-Large
Wynton Marsalis DownBeat Hall of Fame.
After his first album came out in 1982, Marsalis won polls in DownBeat magazine for Musician of the Year, Best Trumpeter, and Album of the Year. In 2017 he was one of the youngest members to be inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame.
Wynton Marsalis Pulitzer Prize |Blood on the Fields
In 1997, he became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields. In a note to him, Zarin Mehta wrote, “I was not surprised at your winning the Pulitzer Prize for Blood on the Fields. It is a broad, beautifully painted canvas that impresses and inspires. It speaks to us all…I’m sure that, somewhere in the firmament, Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong and legions of others are smiling down on you.”
Wynton Marsalis has won the National Medal of Arts, the National Humanities Medal, and been named an NEA Jazz Master.
Wynton Marsalis Louis Armstrong
He was given the Louis Armstrong Memorial Medal and the Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts.
He was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement and was dubbed an Honorary Dreamer by the I Have a Dream Foundation. The New York Urban League awarded Marsalis the Frederick Douglass Medallion for distinguished leadership. The American Arts Council presented him with the Arts Education Award.
In 2008 he received France’s highest distinction, the insignia Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and the city of Marciac in France erected a bronze statue in his honor. The French Ministry of Culture gave him the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Literature.
Wynton Marsalis Honorary Degrees
He has received honorary degrees from New York University, State University of New York. Columbia, Connecticut College, Howard, Northwestern, Princeton, Vermont, and Harvard University.
Wynton Marsalis Grammy Awards
In 1983, at a young age of 22, Marsalis became the only musician to win Grammy Awards in two categories. Both in jazz and classical music during the same year. At the award ceremonies the next year, he won again in both categories. Over the years, he has won in various categories and they include:
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
- Think of One (1983)
- Hot House Flowers (1984)
- Black Codes (From the Underground) (1985)
Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
- Black Codes (From the Underground) (1985)
- J Mood (1986)
- Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. I (1987)
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
- Raymond Leppard (conductor), Wynton Marsalis and the National Philharmonic Orchestra for Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat/Leopold Mozart: Trumpet Concerto in D/Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat (1983)
- Raymond Leppard (conductor), Wynton Marsalis and the English Chamber Orchestra for Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter (1984)
Best Spoken Word Album for Children
- Listen to the Storytellers (2000)
Wynton Marsalis Books
- Sweet Swing Blues on the Road with Frank Stewart (1994)
- Marsalis on Music (1995)
- Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life with Carl Vigeland (2002)
- To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (2004)
- Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits with Paul Rogers (2007)
- Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with Geoffrey Ward (2008)
- Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!: A Sonic Adventure with Paul Rogers (2012)
Wynton Marsalis Quotes
”We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.”
”Don’t wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.”
”Don’t settle for style. Succeed in substance.”
Wynton Marsalis Discography
Approximately seven million copies of his recordings have been sold worldwide.He has toured in 30 countries and on every continent except Antarctica
Wynton Marsalis as leader
1982 Wynton Marsalis
1982 Fathers & Sons
1983 Think of One
1983 Haydn, Hummel, L. Mozart: Trumpet Concertos, with National Philharmonic Orchestra
1984 Wynton Marsalis Plays Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, and Molter, with the English Chamber Orchestra
1984 Hot House Flowers
1985 Black Codes (From the Underground)
1986 Tomasi, Jolivet: Trumpet Concertos, with London Philharmonic Orchestra
1986 J Mood
1987 Carnaval, with Eastman Wind Ensemble
1987 Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. I
1988 Live at Blues Alley
1988 Baroque Music for Trumpets, with the English Chamber Orchestra
1989 Works by Husa, Copland, Vaughan Williams, and Hindemith, with Eastman Wind Ensemble
1989 The Majesty of the Blues
1989 Crescent City Christmas Card
1990 Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance
1990 Tune in Tomorrow
1990 Haydn: Three Favorite Concertos, with National Philharmonic Orchestra
1991 Standard Time, Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling
1991 Thick in the South: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 1
1991 Uptown Ruler: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 2
1991 Levee Low Moan: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 3
1992 Baroque Duet, with Kathleen Battle and Orchestra of St. Luke’s
1992 Blue Interlude
1992 Citi Movement
1992 Portraits by Ellington, with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
1992 Concert for Planet Earth
1993 Resolution to Swing
1993 On the Twentieth Century with Judith Lynn Stillman
1994 Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: The Fire of the Fundamentals
1994 In This House, On This Morning
1994 They Came to Swing, with the JLCO
1994 The London Concert, with the English Chamber Orchestra
1995 Joe Cool’s Blues with Ellis Marsalis
1996 In Gabriel’s Garden with the English Chamber Orchestra
1997 Blood on the Fields with the JLCO
1997 Jump Start and Jazz
1998 Standard Time, Vol. 5: The Midnight Blues
1999 Live in Swing City: Swingin with the Duke with the JLCO
1999 Standard Time, Vol. 4: Marsalis Plays Monk
1999 A Fiddler’s Tale
1999 At the Octoroon Balls: String Quartet No. 1
1999 Big Train, with the JLCO
1999 Sweet Release and Ghost Story
1999 Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord
1999 Listen to the Storyteller: A Trio of Musical Tales From Around The World
1999 Reeltime
1999 Live at the Village Vanguard
2000 Selections from the Village Vanguard Box
2000 The Marciac Suite
2002 All Rise, with the JLCO and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
2003 The Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration
2004 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Plays the Music of Duke Ellington
2004 The Magic Hour
2004 Cast of Cats, with JLCO
2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2005 A Love Supreme, with JLCO
2005 Live at the House of Tribes
2005 Don’t Be Afraid: The Music of Charles Mingus, with JLCO
2007 From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
2007 Congo Square, with JLCO
2007 The War, A Ken Burns Film, The Soundtrack
2008 Standards & Ballads (collection of previously released tracks)
2008 Two Men with the Blues with Willie Nelson
2009 He and She
2009 Christmas Jazz Jam
2010 Portrait in Seven Shades
2010 From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf
2010 Music Redeems, the Marsalis Family
2010 Vitoria Suite with JLCO
2011 Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles
2011 Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center
2011 Swingin’ into the 21st
2011 Selections from Swingin’ into the 21st
2012 The Music of America
2013 The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis
2015 Live in Cuba, with JLCO
2015 Big Band Holidays, with JLCO
2016 The Abyssinian Mass, with JLCO
2017 The Music of John Lewis with JLCO
Wynton Marsalis With Art Blakey
Live at Montreux and Northsea (Timeless, 1980)
Art Blakey in Sweden (Amigo, 1981)
Album of the Year (Timeless, 1981)
Straight Ahead (Concord, 1981)
Keystone 3 (Concord Jazz, 1982)
Wynton, recorded live at Bubba’s Jazz Restaurant October 11, 1980. Who’s Who in Jazz WWLP-21024 (digital master, 1983)
Wynton Marsalis With Chico Freeman
Destiny’s Dance (Contemporary, 1981)
Wynton Marsalis With Dizzy Gillespie
To Diz with Love (Telarc, 1992)
Wynton Marsalis With Herbie Hancock
Quartet (1981)
With Joe Henderson
Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1992)
Wynton Marsalis With Shirley Horn
You Won’t Forget Me (1991, Verve)
Here’s to Life (1992, Verve)
Wynton Marsalis With Elvin Jones
Tribute to John Coltrane “A Love Supreme” (Columbia, 1992)
Wynton Marsalis With the Modern Jazz Quartet
MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Atlantic, 1994)
Wynton Marsalis With Frank Morgan
Mood Indigo (Antilles, 1989)
Wynton Marsalis With Ted Nash
Rhyme & Reason (Arabesque, 1999)
Wynton Marsalis With Marcus Roberts
Deep in the Shed (credited as E. Dankworth) (Novus, 1990)
Wynton Marsalis With The Sachal Ensemble
Song of Lahore (Universal, 2016)
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