Renowned for being one of the world's greatest trumpeters, Wynton Marsalis –
born October 18, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana - is usually categorized as a
jazz musician, although his fields of references, his influence and his own
musical horizons have always stretched much further, occasionally extending
their boundaries to incorporate avant-garde ideas. The second of six sons born
to pianist and music professor Ellis Marsalis in, he was playing traditional
jazz with his local Baptist church band at the age of eight and by the age of
14, he was playing with the New Orleans Phil...