Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator
and a leading advocate of American culture. 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, Marsalis has expanded
the vocabulary for jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest
musicians and composers.