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Wynton Marsalis is not only one of the best trumpeters of all time, is also one of the greatest contemporary jazz musicians.
His name is among the 25 most influential people in the United States, for Time magazine, and last June received an honorary doctorate from the prestigious Harvard University.
Before he had succeeded in becoming the first jazz musician who won the Pulitzer Prize for music with his speech on slavery epic "Blood on the Fields."
Treasure 9 Grammy Awards, and since 1995 is the artistic director of the "Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, with whose orchestra, one of the best big bands in the world, returns for the fourth time the Festival de Jazz de San Javier will present the award to its twelfth edition, in recognition of his career and his invaluable contribution to the recent history of jazz.
No jazz musician at 49 years had managed to place in the field of classics such as Wynton Marsalis has done.
Born in New Orleans, son and brother of great jazz musicians, broke with 18 years in the music scene to participate first in a tour with "Jazz Messengers Art Blakey, and then the quartet Hancock Harbi.
His youth did not lead to new ways of jazz fusion that has always renegade.
Fredddie Miles Davis and Hubbard are in the sound of his trumpet with which recovered early jazz styles, back to Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, to find his real and personal style specifically recognized by critics from his album "Tune in Tomorrow "in 1990.
Until then he had recorded several albums that managed to attract all eyes, one of classical music led to him being considered one of the best classical trumpet players of all time, and others as "Black Codes" or "The Majesty of the Blues "in 1989, which showed his skills as a jazz trumpeter.
In the 80's he formed his own quintet which included his brother Branford, and lasted until 1985 when he created another new line that would turn into septet, still composing works as a modern ballet score for "City Movement" in which he combines elements of classical music with classic jazz improvisations.
His work at the temple of jazz, Lincoln Center has been a giant step in the dissemination of the best jazz in the United States and worldwide.
He recorded two live sessions with one of country music performers of major U.S., Willie Nelson, gathered on the album "Two Men with The Blues", published in 2008.
Wynton Marsalis is already an old friend of the Festival de Jazz de San Javier which has offered some of the best shows of its long history, back to the park's auditorium Almansa, this time with a whole big band, jazz orchestra's permanent Lincoln Center in New York, which presented a wide and varied repertoire that includes from rare in the history of jazz to modern jazz compositions and Wynton Marsalis both self and other of the 15 teachers who make up the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, formed by an impressive horn section consisting of four trumpets, five saxophones, three trombones, which are added piano, bass and drums.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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