Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, musician, educator, and composer, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and received his first trumpet from renowned musician Al Hirt at the age of six. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, in both jazz and classical categories, and is the only artist to have won Grammy Awards in five consecutive years, from 1983 to 1987. In 1997, Marsalis’s oratorio on slavery and freedom, Blood on the Fields, became the first and, to date, only jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize in music. He is the author of To a Young...
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Moving to Higher Ground
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Music - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Appreciation
978-0-8129-6908-5 (0-8129-6908-1)
September 8, 2009 | $19.95
In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize—winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he’s learned from a lifetime in jazz–lessons that can help us all move to higher ground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is the birthright of every American and demonstrates how a real understanding...
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey Ward
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Music - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Appreciation
978-0-8129-6908-5 (0-8129-6908-1)
September 8, 2009 | $19.95
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In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize—winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he’s learned from a lifetime in jazz–lessons that can help us all move to higher ground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is the birthright of every American and demonstrates how a real understanding...
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To a Young Jazz Musician
eBook | 144 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Music - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Appreciation
978-0-307-49831-1 (0-307-49831-X)
March 12, 2009 | $11.99
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed...
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
eBook | 144 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Music - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Appreciation
978-0-307-49831-1 (0-307-49831-X)
March 12, 2009 | $11.99
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In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Moving to Higher Ground
eBook | pages | Random House | Music - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Appreciation
978-1-58836-811-9 (1-58836-811-4)
September 2, 2008 | $13.99
“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal...
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey Ward
eBook | pages | Random House | Music - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Appreciation
978-1-58836-811-9 (1-58836-811-4)
September 2, 2008 | $13.99
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“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
To a Young Jazz Musician
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Music - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Appreciation
978-0-8129-7420-1 (0-8129-7420-4)
November 8, 2005 | $16.00
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed...
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Music - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Appreciation
978-0-8129-7420-1 (0-8129-7420-4)
November 8, 2005 | $16.00
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In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed...
Also available as an
eBook.
