Wynton Marsalis achieved national fame as a jazz trombonist by the time he was 20 years old. In 1987 he cofounded the Jazz at Lincoln Center program. In 2026 he announced that he planned to step down as the programās managing and artistic director in July 2027. Marsalis also won Grammy Awards in both jazz and classical music and received the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1997 for his recording Blood on the Fields.
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