Review: The JLCO’s CONTEMPORARY JAZZ MASTERPIECES at Jazz At Lincoln Center – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Wynton Marsalis is a longtime legend of contemporary jazz. His 1997 work Blood on the Fields, a three-disc-long oratorio about slaves escaping to freedom, was the first jazz composition (and first non-classical composition) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, paving the way for subsequent winners such as Henry Threadgill’s In for a Penny, In for a Pound, legendary saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s Sound Grammar, as well as the only non-classical, non-jazz winner, Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN.
