Wynton Marsalis

American jazz musician and educator

An esteemed trumpeter who worked tirelessly to ensure the status of jazz as a respected American art form into the 21st century.

Born	October 18, 1961
Hometown	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Net worth	$10 million
Height	6'5" (1.95m)

Children	Jasper Armstrong Marsalis
Parents	Ellis Marsalis Jr.

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It can be a burden, wearing the mantle of the great Jazz Tradition. It’s a mantle Wynton Marsalis has taken on willingly for the past four decades, tirelessly promoting jazz as something worthy to stand beside any other form of music. He’s achieved this through his own recordings as a trumpeter and band-leader, through leading the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra since 1996 and running a huge jazz education programme in thousands of schools across the US, and in recent years through his own large-s