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Wynton Marsalis’s “Blood on the Fields,” an epic vocal-orchestral suite that dealt head-on with the tragedy of slavery, became not only the first jazz work to take the highest honor in American music but the first non-classical piece ever to win.
African-American composer and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year.
19 Φεβ 2021 · July 1997: Trumpeter, composer, and teacher Wynton Marsalis on stage at the Jazz à Juan Festival held in Antibes, France, the year he released “Blood on the Fields” — the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Columbia University President George Rupp (left) presents Wynton Marsalis with the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Winning Work Blood on the Fields is presented in a 1997 recording on Columbia Records by Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra .
17 Μαΐ 2018 · In 1997, Wynton became the first jazz artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for music for his epic jazz opera, Blood on the Fields Wynton was grateful for the recognition of jazz music and feels that other jazz musicians equally deserved the Pulitzer, including Duke Ellington. An eight-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, Wynton feels that the value ...
1997. Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center. First Jazz musician to win Pulitzer Prize.
