Hirt volunteered to give him one and, thus, Wynton – at the age of six – received his first trumpet. Marsalis began his classical training ... a new crop of brass players and launched the ...

World-renowned jazz musician Wynton Marsalis tells "CBS Mornings" co-anchor Gayle King about building the historic Frederick P. Rose Hall, the artist who inspired him, and more.

Marsalis wrote Blues Symphony in 2009, and it’s now the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s first album release under the leadership ...

Wynton Marsalis made history when he became the first musician to win classical and jazz Grammy Awards in the same year. He tells the BBC's Katty Kay about jazz's unique connection to liberation ...

The solo trumpet part in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #2 remains one of the most challenging in the repertoire, and Wynton Marsalis navigates it with fluidity and grace. Hear that and more this ...

Balsom first shot to public attention as a teenager, scooping the brass category ... classical music. Classical music needs to save us.” Alison Balsom plays Wynton Marsalis’s Trumpet Concerto ...

Wynton Marsalis is a great man, but his Fourth, “The Jungle”, is no masterpiece, not even a symphony – a dance suite, maybe, with enough bold textures to recall wandering attentions. We needed less of ...

(Recording) is kind of like your business card now, for an orchestra,” explains DSO President and CEO Erik Ronmark, a ...

Wynton Marsalis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer and trumpeter, born on 18 October 1961 in New Orleans, US. Over the years, Marsalis has crafted a musical career that has spanned genres, ...

Show more Wynton Marsalis tells the BBC's Katty Kay about his journey from being a young, aspiring musician in New Orleans to one of the most celebrated figures in both jazz and classical music.