Wynton Marsalis Birthday

Happy Birthday to trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis born on this day in 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Here is the official home page for Wynton which offers sound, and wav files, latest releases, news, biography, discography, tour information, and message board:
wyntonmarsalis.net

This is the official Wynton Marsalis Website. Here you will find the latest news, tour information and biographical information about Wynton Marsalis:
wyntonmarsalis.com

Wynton Marsalis has done some incredible things with Jazz At Lincoln Center in NY. I plan to visit there one day soon: jalc.org

Wynton has so many albums it is really hard to pick a few. My favorite Wynton albums that I have heard are the following:

Citi Movement (1992)
Black Codes (From the Underground) (1985)
Hot House Flowers (1984)
All Rise (2002)
In This House, On This Morning (1992)
Trumpet Concertos (1990)
Blood On The Fields (1995)
Crescent City Christmas Card (1989)
Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance (1990)
Live at the Village Vanguard (1999)
Joe Cool's Blues (1994)
The London Concert: Haydn/Hummel/Mozart/Fasch [Bonus Tracks] (2004)
Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1 (1986)
Standard Time, Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling (1987)
Live at Bubba's (1996)
Baroque Music for Trumpets (1988)

I still and always have a lot of catching up to do with Wynton Marsalis' albums because he churns them out with the quickness!

Watching and listening to Wynton Marsalis over the years, I also think he is a natural and great teacher. This was an excellent program he did in '95 called 'Marsalis on Music' which ran on PBS where he taught children all about Music: sonymusic.com.

I thought this was a cool commercial Wynton did for iPod+iTunes: