The trumpeter and educator leads Jazz at Lincoln Center, champions classical and jazz audiences, and has won at least nine Grammys.
Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise, a 12-movement symphony blending jazz and orchestra, has opened the Edinburgh Festival with a star-studded lineup. Marsalis says collaboration has shaped the work, and the festival embraces its theme of unity as performers from Jazz at Lincoln Center, RSNO, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and others come together. The piece was written to celebrate pluralism and integration.
A cross-section of tributes and retrospectives marks Miles Davis’s centenary and Sonny Rollins’s passing, underscoring their enduring influence on jazz’s evolution, from cool restraint to fearless improvisation.