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Born: October 18, 1961 in New Orleans, LA
Years Active: 80 's, 90 's, 00's
Genre: Jazz

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Biography:
The most famous jazz musician since 1980, Wynton Marsalis made a major impact on jazz almost from the start. In the early '80s, it was major news that a young and very talented black musician would choose to make a living playing acoustic jazz rather than fusion, funk, or R&B. Marsalis' arrival on the scene started the "Young Lions" movement an... Continue Bio >>

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Tickets:
03/01/2010 Kennedy Center - Concert Hall
03/04/2010 Paramount Theatre - TX
03/05/2010 Meyerson Symphony Center
03/06/2010 Meyerson Symphony Center
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Discography:
Copland/Vaughan Williams/Hindemith
2009 He and She
2007 From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
2005 Live at the House of Tribes
2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
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Filmography:
2009 Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson: A Tribute to Ray Charles
2008 Black Magic
2008 Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
2008 Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Congo Square
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Member Of: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Marsalis Family More >> Similar Artists: Terence Blanchard The Hollyday Brothers Roy Campbell Roy Hargrove Donald Harrison More >>

Influenced By: Freddie Hubbard Louis Armstrong Woody Shaw Fats Navarro Dizzy Gillespie More >> Followers: Roy Hargrove Kenny Kirkland Nicholas Payton Irvin Mayfield Jeremy Pelt More >>

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