The first jazz artist to win a Music Pulitzer, this brother of Branford won for the opera "Blood on the Fields"
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Wynton Marsalis facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Winner of Pulitzer Prize for music for epic jazz opera, Blood on the Fields, 1997; NY ... and his older brother Branford, who plays tenor and soprano saxophones. ... jazz at the hands of musicians like Wynton led to the first-ever all-jazz music ... that year Marsalis won an award for his contributions to music education in the...
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Marsalis family | American musicians | Britannica.com  ... the first family of jazz, who (particularly brothers Wynton and Branford) had a ... in both jazz and classical music (winning Grammy Awards in both categories in ... (such as Blood on the Fields, which won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1997),...
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Artist's Top Albums  He is the world's first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz ... His debut recording received glorious reviews and won the Grammy Award for Best .... to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his epic oratorio Blood On The Fields. ... Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Ballet - a historic moment for jazz as an...
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Wynton Marsalis - Wikipedia  In 1997, Marsalis became the first jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his epic oratorio, Blood on the Fields. In a personal note to Marsalis,...
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Wynton Marsalis | Entries | KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana  Feb 1, 2011 ... Born into the musical Marsalis family of New Orleans, Wynton has worked to ... is an accomplished musician, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, and ... the brother of jazz musicians Branford Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis, and Jason Marsalis. ... And a mid-1990s jazz oratorio, Blood on the Fields, based on the...
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Pulitzer Prize for Music - Wikipedia  The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first awarded in 1943. ... George Walker was the first African American composer to win the Prize, which ... it had become a very different kind of award, "by composers for composers" and...
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Chapter 6: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists | Jazz: W. W. ...  He received his first cornet from the immigrant Jewish family that owned one of the ... but only until they heard his originality, blues feeling, and rhythmic drive. ... In 1926 Armstrong was asked to be the feature soloist with the Carroll ... By 1929, a number of musicians were following Armstrong's example of the starring soloist.
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The Piano Lesson by August Wilson  Reviews, Discussion ...  In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned his .... The Piano Lesson is about two siblings fighting over an antique piano that has ..... The play revolves around a piano owned by a brother and sister that ..... (all symbolized by the fate of a family heirloom piano) was obvious from the start,...
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The History of Jazz Piano - Piano Play It  A wide view over the the history of Jazz piano music with respect to its biggest pianists. ... In the late 1890's a black composer called Scott Joplin took the first steps that .... Art Tatum was born on Oct. 13, 1909 in Toledo, Ohio and despite being blind ... with Goodman through the years, but he mostly led his own trio after 1944.
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Samuel Barber - Wikipedia  Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910  January 23, 1981) was an American composer of ... He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music twice: for his opera Vanessa ... He began studying the piano at the age of 6 and at age 7 composed his first ... According to another source, however, it was precisely the parts to the...
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Music From Mo' Better Blues by Branford Marsalis (Album, Film ...  Genres: Film Soundtrack, Jazz, Soundtracks, Film Score. ... More than just the marketing tool riding shotgun beside another Spike Lee Jointthis recording is a...
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A MODERN KIND OF NEW ORLEANS JAZZ IN TOWN - NYTimes.com  Aug 20, 1982 ... Why have musicians as gifted as the pianist Ellis Marsalis and Alvin Batiste - called ... musicians, the desirable jobs were with such rhythm-and-blues band leaders as ... directs the Jazz Institute at Southern University in Baton Rouge). Wynton and Branford Marsalis have been making names for themselves...
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Branford Marsalis - Wikipedia  Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. ... In 1994, Marsalis appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. ... From 1992 to 1995, Branford was the leader of the Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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Biography  Wynton Marsalis Official Website  He is the world's first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum ... Maurice Andr praised Wynton as potentially the greatest trumpeter of all time. ... Marsalis collaborated with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in 1995 to ... Honorary degrees have been conferred upon Wynton by over 25 of...
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Alec Waugh - Wikipedia  Alexander Raban "Alec" Waugh (8 July 1898  3 September 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. His first wife was Barbara Jacobs (daughter of the writer William Wymark ... the Harry Belafonte title track provided inspiration as well as the name for the...
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Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia  Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901  July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different eras in jazz.
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Antnio Carlos Jobim - Wikipedia  Antnio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927  December 8, 1994), also ... In 1965 his album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz album to win the Grammy ... His father Jorge de Oliveira Jobim (So Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, April 23, ... "The Girl from Ipanema" won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
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The Man Behind the Horn : Terence Blanchard Turned Denzel ...  Aug 17, 1990 ... In Spike Lee's "Mo' Better Blues," that rare movie about jazz in ... the film job on the strength of his soundtrack work in two previous Lee films, ... that the actor at least had some music background; he had played piano in ... in the movie, Branford Marsalis wrote three and Spike Lee's father, Bill Lee, wrote two.
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In August Wilson's 1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner, The Piano Lesson ...  Oct 10, 2010 ... In August Wilson's 1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner, The Piano Lesson, Boy Willie and His Sister Berniece Argue Over the Fate of a Family...
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Aaron Copland - Conductor, Songwriter - Biography.com  Dec 29, 2015 ... The following year Copland won the Pulitzer Prize for the piece. An author as ... He eventually won an Oscar for The Heiress (1949). And more...
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Black conductors - Wikipedia  Black conductors are musicians of African, Caribbean, African-American ancestry and other ... In 1955, Lee was the "...first musician of colour to conduct a major opera ... in the US with a performance of La Traviata at the New York City Opera. ... Philharmonic Orchestra and became the first African American to conduct a...