The Story of Wynton Marsalis tickets

Pick up Wynton Marsalis tickets if you want to be dazzled, amazed and inspired by a musician who has done it all, collected all the awards and is largely responsible for rejuvenating an American genre. When Wynton Marsalis burst onto the jazz scene in the early 1980s, many in the music world fretted over what they worried was the death of jazz. Then Marsalis entered with his unsurpassed trumpet chops and his vast musicality, and others have followed, and the death of jazz is a distant memory. Born in 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Wynton Marsalis is from a well-known musical family, father Ellis Marsalis, a renowned jazz pianist, and brother Branford Marsalis, who has enjoyed a successful career as a jazz saxophonist. But it's Wynton who has forged new ground in music with his compositional innovation, his equal success in jazz and classical genres, and his leadership of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis, who has won an extensive list of awards, is the only musician ever to have won Grammy Awards for both jazz and classical albums, in 1984 and 1985. He is also the only jazz musician ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize, in 1997 for his large-scale composition Blood on the Fields, about slavery. It's difficult to say enough about how much Wynton Marsalis has done for jazz and music in general. One could say he was an essential bridge between traditional styles and modern, having played with legends, such as Art Blakey, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie Hancock, but also having paved the way for 'young lions,' such as Roy Hargrove and Joshua Redman.