Marsalis

Marsalis
(1961– )
a US jazz musician who plays the trumpet. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997 for Blood on the Fields. Earlier, he had become the first musician to receive Grammys for both jazz and classical works. He played with the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14, before forming his own jazz group in 1981.

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