Renowned for being one of the world's greatest trumpeters, Wynton Marsalis is
usually categorised 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 New
Orleans, he was playing traditional jazz with his local Baptist church band at
the age of eight and by 14 he was playing with the New Orleans Philharmonic. At
17 he became the youngest student ever a...