In a fiery podcast interview with Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post, New Orleans-born trumpet maestro Wynton Marsalis expressed his utter disdain for rap music, calling the style a "conduit of ...

The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to arts education and funding is preparing the public to become “more ignorant,” according to Wynton Marsalis. Appearing on “CBS This Morning” Monday, the ...

On Tuesday, Wynton Marsalis caused a bit of a stir during an interview with the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart when he attacked hip-hop culture as a negative force in culture and declared that ...

How busy is Wynton Marsalis? So busy that the Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz trumpeter, composer and band leader had to skip the Sept. 22 White House ceremony honoring him and this year’s other National ...

Elliott: I'm Elliott Forrest and this is WQXR, welcome to a very special hour with two forces of nature in the music world, she's a world-class violinist from Scotland with Italian roots, he's from ...

“I’ve been blessed to be on the road in our country since 1980, so that’s 40 years now, and I stay after every gig and talk to every person, all over the country," said the legendary trumpeter and ...

Wynton Marsalis is a Pulitzer Prize and nine-time Grammy Award winner. He’s a musician, a bandleader and a composer as well as an arts advocate and an educator. And he also was a kid once, growing up ...

Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis is no stranger to the classroom. The winner of nine Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the National Medal of the Arts estimates that he’s taught at more than 1,000 schools over ...