Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, t… Read Full Bio ↴Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States.
Marsalis is the son of jazz musician Ellis Marsalis, Jr. (pianist), grandson of Ellis Marsalis, Sr., and brother of Branford Marsalis (saxophonist), Delfeayo Marsalis (trombonist), Mboya, and Jason Marsalis (drummer).
He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Wynton has expanded the vocabulary for jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.
Early Years
Wynton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961, to Ellis and Dolores Marsalis, the second of six sons. At an early age he exhibited a superior aptitude for music and a desire to participate in American culture. At age eight Wynton performed traditional New Orleans music in the Fairview Baptist Church band led by legendary banjoist Danny Barker, and at 14 he performed with the New Orleans Philharmonic. During high school Wynton performed with the New Orleans Symphony Brass Quintet, New Orleans Community Concert Band, New Orleans Youth Orchestra, New Orleans Symphony, various jazz bands and with the popular local funk band, the Creators.
At age 17 Wynton became the youngest musician ever to be admitted to Tanglewood’s Berkshire Music Center. Despite his youth, he was awarded the school’s prestigious Harvey Shapiro Award for outstanding brass student. Wynton moved to New York City to attend Juilliard in 1979. When he began to pick up gigs around town, the grapevine began to buzz. In 1980 Wynton seized the opportunity to join the Jazz Messengers to study under master drummer and bandleader Art Blakey. It was from Blakey that Wynton acquired his concept for bandleading and for bringing intensity to each and every performance. In the years to follow Wynton performed with Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Sweets Edison, Clark Terry, Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and countless other jazz legends.
Wynton assembled his own band in 1981 and hit the road, performing over 120 concerts every year for 15 consecutive years. With the power of his superior musicianship, the infectious sound of his swinging bands and an exhaustive series of performances and music workshops, Marsalis rekindled widespread interest in jazz throughout the world. Wynton embraced the jazz lineage to garner recognition for the older generation of overlooked jazz musicians and prompted the re-issue of jazz catalog by record companies worldwide.
He also inspired a renaissance that attracted a new generation of fine young talent to jazz.
A look at the more distinguished jazz musicians of today reveals numerous students of Marsalis’ workshops: James Carter, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Harry Connick Jr., Nicholas Payton, Eric Reed and Eric Lewis, to name a few.
Classical Career
Wynton’s love of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and others drove him to pursue a career in classical music as well. He recorded the Haydn, Hummel and Leopold Mozart trumpet concertos at age 20. His debut recording received glorious reviews and won the Grammy Award® for “Best Classical Soloist with an Orchestra.” Marsalis went on to record 10 additional classical records, all to critical acclaim. Wynton performed with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra and London’s Royal Philharmonic, working with an eminent group of conductors including: Leppard, Dutoit, Maazel, Slatkin, Salonen and Tilson-Thomas. Famed classical trumpeter Maurice André praised Wynton as “potentially the greatest trumpeter of all time.”
Record Production
To date Wynton has produced over 70 records which have sold over seven million copies worldwide including three Gold Records. His recordings consistently incorporate a heavy emphasis on the blues, an inclusive approach to all forms of jazz from New Orleans to modern jazz, persistent use of swing as the primary rhythm, an embrace of the American popular song, individual and collective improvisation, and a panoramic vision of compositional styles from dittys to dynamic call and response patterns (both within the rhythm section and between the rhythm section and horn players). Always swinging, Marsalis blows his trumpet with a clear tone and a unique, virtuosic style derived from an encyclopedic range of trumpet techniques.
The Composer
Wynton Marsalis is a prolific and inventive composer. The dance community embraced Wynton’s inventiveness by awarding him with commissions to create new music for Garth Fagan (Citi Movement-Griot New York), Peter Martins at the New York City Ballet (Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements and Them Twos), Twyla Tharp with the American Ballet Theatre (Jump Start), Judith Jamison at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (Sweet Release and Here…Now), and Savion Glover (Petite Suite and Spaces). Marsalis collaborated with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in 1995 to compose the string quartet At The Octoroon Balls, and again in 1998 to create a response to Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale with his composition A Fiddler’s Tale. With his collection of standards arrangements, Wynton reconnected audiences with the beauty of the American popular song (Standard Time Volumes I-VI). He re-introduced the joy in New Orleans jazz with his recording The Majesty Of The Blues. He extended the jazz musician’s interplay with the blues in Levee Low Moan, Thick In The South and other blues recordings. With Citi Movement, In This House On This Morning and Blood On The Fields, Wynton invented a fresh conception for extended form compositions. His inventive interplay with melody, harmony and rhythm, along with his lyrical voicing and tonal coloring assert new possibilities for the jazz ensemble. In his dramatic oratorio Blood On The Fields, Wynton draws upon the blues, work songs, chants, call and response, spirituals, New Orleans jazz, Ellingtonesque orchestral arrangements and Afro-Caribbean rhythms; and he uses Greek chorus-style recitations to move the work along. The New York Times Magazine said the work “marked the symbolic moment when the full heritage of the line, Ellington through Mingus, was extended into the present.” The San Francisco Examiner stated, “Marsalis’ orchestral arrangements are magnificent. Duke Ellington’s shadings and themes come and go but Marsalis’ free use of dissonance, counter rhythms and polyphonics is way ahead of Ellington’s mid-century era.” Wynton extended his achievements in Blood On The Fields with All Rise, an epic composition for big band, gospel choir, and symphony orchestra - a classic work of high art - which was performed by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Kurt Masur along with the Morgan State University Choir and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (December 1999). Marsalis collaborated with Ghanaian master drummer Yacub Addy to create Congo Square, a groundbreaking composition combining elegant harmonies from America’s jazz tradition with fundamental rituals in African percussion and vocals (2006). For the anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church’s 200th year of service, Marsalis blended Baptist church choir cadences with blues accents and big band swing rhythms to compose Abyssinian 200: A Celebration, which was performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Abyssinian’s 100 voice choir before packed houses in New York City (May 2008). In the fall of 2009 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra premiered Marsalis’ composition Blues Symphony. By infusing blues and ragtime rhythms with symphonic orchestrations Wynton creates a fresh type of enjoyment of classical repertoire. Employing complex layers of collective improvisation, Marsalis further expanded his repertoire for symphony orchestra with Swing Symphony, premiered by the renowned Berlin Philharmonic in June 2010, creating new possibilities for audiences to experience a symphony orchestra swing. The New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Barbican have all signed on to perform Swing Symphony. Marsalis’ rich and expansive body of music for the ages places him among the world’s most significant composers.
Television and Radio
In the fall of 1995 Wynton launched two major broadcast events. In October PBS premiered Marsalis On Music, an educational television series on jazz and classical music. The series was written and hosted by Marsalis and was enjoyed by millions of parents and children. Writers distinguished Marsalis On Music with comparisons to Leonard Bernstein’s celebrated Young People’s Concerts of the 50s and 60s. That same month National Public Radio aired the first of Marsalis’ 26-week series entitled Making the Music. These entertaining and insightful radio shows were the first full exposition of jazz music in American broadcast history. Wynton’s radio and television series were awarded the most prestigious distinction in broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody Award. Marsalis has also written five books: Sweet Swing Blues on the Road, Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life, To a Young Musician: Letters from the Road, Jazz ABZ (an A to Z collection of poems celebrating jazz greats), and his most recent release Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life.
Awards and Accolades
Wynton Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards® in grand style. In 1983 he became the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards® for both jazz and classical records; and he repeated the distinction by winning jazz and classical Grammys® again in 1984. Today Wynton is the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards® in five consecutive years (1983-1987). Honorary degrees have been conferred upon Wynton by over 25 of America’s leading academic institutions including Columbia, Harvard, Howard, Princeton and Yale (see Exhibit A). Elsewhere Wynton was honored with the Louis Armstrong Memorial Medal and the Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts. He was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement and was dubbed an Honorary Dreamer by the “I Have a Dream Foundation.” The New York Urban League awarded Wynton with the Frederick Douglass Medallion for distinguished leadership and the American Arts Council presented him with the Arts Education Award. Time magazine selected Wynton as one of America’s most promising leaders under age 40 in 1995, and in 1996 Time celebrated Marsalis again as one of America’s 25 most influential people. In November 2005 Wynton Marsalis received The National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan proclaimed Wynton Marsalis an international ambassador of goodwill for the Unites States by appointing him a UN Messenger of Peace (2001).
In 1997 Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his epic oratorio Blood On The Fields. During the five preceding decades the Pulitzer Prize jury refused to recognize jazz musicians and their improvisational music, reserving this distinction for classical composers. In the years following Marsalis’ award, the Pulitzer Prize for Music has been awarded posthumously to Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. In a personal note to Wynton, Zarin Mehta wrote, “I was not surprised at your winning the Pulitzer Prize for Blood On The Fields. It is a broad, beautifully painted canvas that impresses and inspires. It speaks to us all ... I’m sure that, somewhere in the firmament, Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong and legions of others are smiling down on you.”
Wynton’s creativity has been celebrated throughout the world. He won the Netherlands’ Edison Award and the Grand Prix Du Disque of France. The Mayor of Vitoria, Spain, awarded Wynton with the city’s Gold Medal – its most coveted distinction. Britain’s senior conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, granted Mr. Marsalis Honorary Membership, the Academy’s highest decoration for a non-British citizen (1996). The city of Marciac, France, erected a bronze statue in his honor. The French Ministry of Culture appointed Wynton the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Literature and in the fall of 2009 Wynton received France’s highest distinction, the insignia Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor that was first awarded by Napoleon Bonaparte. French Ambassador, His Excellency Pierre Vimont, captured the evening best with his introduction:
“We are gathered here tonight to express the French government’s recognition of one of the most influential figures in American music, an outstanding artist, in one word: a visionary…
I want to stress how important your work has been for both the American and the French. I want to put the emphasis on the main values and concerns that we all share: the importance of education and transmission of culture from one generation to the other, and a true commitment to the profoundly democratic idea that lies in jazz music.
I strongly believe that, for you, jazz is more than just a musical form. It is tradition, it is part of American history and culture and life. To you, jazz is the sound of democracy. And from this democratic nature of jazz derives openness, generosity, and universality.”
Jazz at Lincoln Center
In 1987 Wynton Marsalis co-founded a jazz program at Lincoln Center. In July 1996, due to its significant success, Jazz at Lincoln Center was installed as new constituent of Lincoln Center, equal in stature with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Ballet - a historic moment for jazz as an art form and for Lincoln Center as a cultural institution. In October 2004, with the assistance of a dedicated Board and staff, Marsalis opened Frederick P. Rose Hall, the world’s first institution for jazz. The complex contains three state-of-the-art performance spaces (including the first concert hall designed specifically for jazz) along with recording, broadcast, rehearsal and educational facilities. Jazz at Lincoln Center has become a preferred venue for New York jazz fans and a destination for travelers from throughout the world. Wynton presently serves as Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center and Music Director for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Under Wynton’s leadership, Jazz at Lincoln Center has developed an international agenda presenting rich and diverse programming that includes concerts, debates, film forums, dances, television and radio broadcasts, and educational activities.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is a mecca for learning as well as a hub for performance. Their comprehensive educational programming includes a Band Director’s Academy, a hugely popular concert series for kids called Jazz for Young People, Jazz in the Schools, a Middle School Jazz Academy, WeBop! (for kids ages 8 months to 5 years), an annual High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival that reaches over 2000 bands in 50 states and Canada, and online learning tools.
Giving Back
Wynton Marsalis has devoted his life to uplifting populations worldwide with the egalitarian spirit of jazz. And while his body of work is enough to fill two lifetimes, Wynton continues to work tirelessly to contribute even more to our world’s cultural landscape. It has been said that he is an artist for whom greatness is not just possible, but inevitable. The most extraordinary dimension of Wynton Marsalis, however, is not his accomplishments but his character. It is the lesser-known part of this man who finds endless ways to give of himself.
It is the person who waited in an empty parking lot for one full hour after a concert in Baltimore, waiting for a single student to return from home with his horn for a trumpet lesson. It is the citizen who personally funds scholarships for students and covers medical expenses for those in need. Immediately following Hurricane Katrina, Wynton organized the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Concert and raised over $3 million for musicians and cultural organizations impacted by the hurricane. At the same time, he assumed a leadership role on the Bring Back New Orleans Cultural Commission where he was instrumental in shaping a master plan that would revitalize the city’s cultural base. Wynton Marsalis has selflessly donated his time and talent to non-profit organizations throughout the country to raise money to meet the many needs within our society. From My Sister’s Place (a shelter for battered women) to Graham Windham (a shelter for homeless children), the Children’s Defense Fund, Amnesty International, the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, Food For All Seasons (a food bank for the elderly and disadvantaged), Very Special Arts (an organization that provides experiences in dance, drama, literature, and music for individuals with physical and mental disabilities) to the Newark Boys Chorus School (a full-time academic music school for disadvantaged youths) and many, many more - Wynton responded enthusiastically to the call for service. It is Wynton Marsalis’ commitment to the improvement of life for all people that portrays the best of his character and humanity.
HONORARY DEGREES
1988
1. Brown University (Doctor of Music)
2. Southern University at New Orleans (Doctor of Music)
1990
3. University at Buffalo - State University of New York (Doctor of Music)
1992
4. Boston University (Doctor of Music)
1993
5. Academy of Southern Arts and Letters (Doctor of Philosophy in Arts)
1994
6. University of Miami (Doctor of Music)
1995
7. Hunter College (Doctor of Humane Letters)
8. Manhattan School of Music (Doctor of Music)
9. Princeton University (Doctor of Arts)
10. Yale University (Doctor of Music)
1996
11. Brandies University (Doctor of Humane Letters)
12. Columbia University (Doctor of Music)
13. Governors State University (Doctor of Humane Letters)
14. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Doctor of Fine Arts)
15. Royal Academy of Music (Honorary Member)
16. University of Scranton (Doctor of Fine Arts)
1997
17. Amherst College (Doctor of Music)
18. Howard University (Doctor of Music)
19. Long Island University (Doctor of Music)
20. Rutgers University (Doctor of Fine Arts)
1998
21. Bard College (Doctor of Fine Arts)
22. Haverford College (Doctor of Humane Letters)
1999
23. University of Massachusetts Amherst (Doctor of Fine Arts)
2000
24. Middlebury College (Doctor of Arts)
25. University of Pennsylvania (Doctor of Music)
2001
26. Clark Atlanta University (Doctorate of Humane Letters)
27. Connecticut College (Doctor of Fine Arts)
2004
28. Bloomfield College (Doctor of Fine Arts)
2007
29. New York University (Doctor of Fine Arts)
2009
30. Harvard University (Doctor of Music)
31. Northwestern University (Doctor of Arts)
www.wyntonmarsalis.org
Marsalis is the son of jazz musician Ellis Marsalis, Jr. (pianist), grandson of Ellis Marsalis, Sr., and brother of Branford Marsalis (saxophonist), Delfeayo Marsalis (trombonist), Mboya, and Jason Marsalis (drummer).
He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Wynton has expanded the vocabulary for jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.
Early Years
Wynton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961, to Ellis and Dolores Marsalis, the second of six sons. At an early age he exhibited a superior aptitude for music and a desire to participate in American culture. At age eight Wynton performed traditional New Orleans music in the Fairview Baptist Church band led by legendary banjoist Danny Barker, and at 14 he performed with the New Orleans Philharmonic. During high school Wynton performed with the New Orleans Symphony Brass Quintet, New Orleans Community Concert Band, New Orleans Youth Orchestra, New Orleans Symphony, various jazz bands and with the popular local funk band, the Creators.
At age 17 Wynton became the youngest musician ever to be admitted to Tanglewood’s Berkshire Music Center. Despite his youth, he was awarded the school’s prestigious Harvey Shapiro Award for outstanding brass student. Wynton moved to New York City to attend Juilliard in 1979. When he began to pick up gigs around town, the grapevine began to buzz. In 1980 Wynton seized the opportunity to join the Jazz Messengers to study under master drummer and bandleader Art Blakey. It was from Blakey that Wynton acquired his concept for bandleading and for bringing intensity to each and every performance. In the years to follow Wynton performed with Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Sweets Edison, Clark Terry, Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and countless other jazz legends.
Wynton assembled his own band in 1981 and hit the road, performing over 120 concerts every year for 15 consecutive years. With the power of his superior musicianship, the infectious sound of his swinging bands and an exhaustive series of performances and music workshops, Marsalis rekindled widespread interest in jazz throughout the world. Wynton embraced the jazz lineage to garner recognition for the older generation of overlooked jazz musicians and prompted the re-issue of jazz catalog by record companies worldwide.
He also inspired a renaissance that attracted a new generation of fine young talent to jazz.
A look at the more distinguished jazz musicians of today reveals numerous students of Marsalis’ workshops: James Carter, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Harry Connick Jr., Nicholas Payton, Eric Reed and Eric Lewis, to name a few.
Classical Career
Wynton’s love of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and others drove him to pursue a career in classical music as well. He recorded the Haydn, Hummel and Leopold Mozart trumpet concertos at age 20. His debut recording received glorious reviews and won the Grammy Award® for “Best Classical Soloist with an Orchestra.” Marsalis went on to record 10 additional classical records, all to critical acclaim. Wynton performed with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra and London’s Royal Philharmonic, working with an eminent group of conductors including: Leppard, Dutoit, Maazel, Slatkin, Salonen and Tilson-Thomas. Famed classical trumpeter Maurice André praised Wynton as “potentially the greatest trumpeter of all time.”
Record Production
To date Wynton has produced over 70 records which have sold over seven million copies worldwide including three Gold Records. His recordings consistently incorporate a heavy emphasis on the blues, an inclusive approach to all forms of jazz from New Orleans to modern jazz, persistent use of swing as the primary rhythm, an embrace of the American popular song, individual and collective improvisation, and a panoramic vision of compositional styles from dittys to dynamic call and response patterns (both within the rhythm section and between the rhythm section and horn players). Always swinging, Marsalis blows his trumpet with a clear tone and a unique, virtuosic style derived from an encyclopedic range of trumpet techniques.
The Composer
Wynton Marsalis is a prolific and inventive composer. The dance community embraced Wynton’s inventiveness by awarding him with commissions to create new music for Garth Fagan (Citi Movement-Griot New York), Peter Martins at the New York City Ballet (Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements and Them Twos), Twyla Tharp with the American Ballet Theatre (Jump Start), Judith Jamison at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (Sweet Release and Here…Now), and Savion Glover (Petite Suite and Spaces). Marsalis collaborated with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in 1995 to compose the string quartet At The Octoroon Balls, and again in 1998 to create a response to Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale with his composition A Fiddler’s Tale. With his collection of standards arrangements, Wynton reconnected audiences with the beauty of the American popular song (Standard Time Volumes I-VI). He re-introduced the joy in New Orleans jazz with his recording The Majesty Of The Blues. He extended the jazz musician’s interplay with the blues in Levee Low Moan, Thick In The South and other blues recordings. With Citi Movement, In This House On This Morning and Blood On The Fields, Wynton invented a fresh conception for extended form compositions. His inventive interplay with melody, harmony and rhythm, along with his lyrical voicing and tonal coloring assert new possibilities for the jazz ensemble. In his dramatic oratorio Blood On The Fields, Wynton draws upon the blues, work songs, chants, call and response, spirituals, New Orleans jazz, Ellingtonesque orchestral arrangements and Afro-Caribbean rhythms; and he uses Greek chorus-style recitations to move the work along. The New York Times Magazine said the work “marked the symbolic moment when the full heritage of the line, Ellington through Mingus, was extended into the present.” The San Francisco Examiner stated, “Marsalis’ orchestral arrangements are magnificent. Duke Ellington’s shadings and themes come and go but Marsalis’ free use of dissonance, counter rhythms and polyphonics is way ahead of Ellington’s mid-century era.” Wynton extended his achievements in Blood On The Fields with All Rise, an epic composition for big band, gospel choir, and symphony orchestra - a classic work of high art - which was performed by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Kurt Masur along with the Morgan State University Choir and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (December 1999). Marsalis collaborated with Ghanaian master drummer Yacub Addy to create Congo Square, a groundbreaking composition combining elegant harmonies from America’s jazz tradition with fundamental rituals in African percussion and vocals (2006). For the anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church’s 200th year of service, Marsalis blended Baptist church choir cadences with blues accents and big band swing rhythms to compose Abyssinian 200: A Celebration, which was performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Abyssinian’s 100 voice choir before packed houses in New York City (May 2008). In the fall of 2009 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra premiered Marsalis’ composition Blues Symphony. By infusing blues and ragtime rhythms with symphonic orchestrations Wynton creates a fresh type of enjoyment of classical repertoire. Employing complex layers of collective improvisation, Marsalis further expanded his repertoire for symphony orchestra with Swing Symphony, premiered by the renowned Berlin Philharmonic in June 2010, creating new possibilities for audiences to experience a symphony orchestra swing. The New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Barbican have all signed on to perform Swing Symphony. Marsalis’ rich and expansive body of music for the ages places him among the world’s most significant composers.
Television and Radio
In the fall of 1995 Wynton launched two major broadcast events. In October PBS premiered Marsalis On Music, an educational television series on jazz and classical music. The series was written and hosted by Marsalis and was enjoyed by millions of parents and children. Writers distinguished Marsalis On Music with comparisons to Leonard Bernstein’s celebrated Young People’s Concerts of the 50s and 60s. That same month National Public Radio aired the first of Marsalis’ 26-week series entitled Making the Music. These entertaining and insightful radio shows were the first full exposition of jazz music in American broadcast history. Wynton’s radio and television series were awarded the most prestigious distinction in broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody Award. Marsalis has also written five books: Sweet Swing Blues on the Road, Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life, To a Young Musician: Letters from the Road, Jazz ABZ (an A to Z collection of poems celebrating jazz greats), and his most recent release Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life.
Awards and Accolades
Wynton Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards® in grand style. In 1983 he became the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards® for both jazz and classical records; and he repeated the distinction by winning jazz and classical Grammys® again in 1984. Today Wynton is the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards® in five consecutive years (1983-1987). Honorary degrees have been conferred upon Wynton by over 25 of America’s leading academic institutions including Columbia, Harvard, Howard, Princeton and Yale (see Exhibit A). Elsewhere Wynton was honored with the Louis Armstrong Memorial Medal and the Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts. He was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement and was dubbed an Honorary Dreamer by the “I Have a Dream Foundation.” The New York Urban League awarded Wynton with the Frederick Douglass Medallion for distinguished leadership and the American Arts Council presented him with the Arts Education Award. Time magazine selected Wynton as one of America’s most promising leaders under age 40 in 1995, and in 1996 Time celebrated Marsalis again as one of America’s 25 most influential people. In November 2005 Wynton Marsalis received The National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan proclaimed Wynton Marsalis an international ambassador of goodwill for the Unites States by appointing him a UN Messenger of Peace (2001).
In 1997 Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his epic oratorio Blood On The Fields. During the five preceding decades the Pulitzer Prize jury refused to recognize jazz musicians and their improvisational music, reserving this distinction for classical composers. In the years following Marsalis’ award, the Pulitzer Prize for Music has been awarded posthumously to Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. In a personal note to Wynton, Zarin Mehta wrote, “I was not surprised at your winning the Pulitzer Prize for Blood On The Fields. It is a broad, beautifully painted canvas that impresses and inspires. It speaks to us all ... I’m sure that, somewhere in the firmament, Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong and legions of others are smiling down on you.”
Wynton’s creativity has been celebrated throughout the world. He won the Netherlands’ Edison Award and the Grand Prix Du Disque of France. The Mayor of Vitoria, Spain, awarded Wynton with the city’s Gold Medal – its most coveted distinction. Britain’s senior conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, granted Mr. Marsalis Honorary Membership, the Academy’s highest decoration for a non-British citizen (1996). The city of Marciac, France, erected a bronze statue in his honor. The French Ministry of Culture appointed Wynton the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Literature and in the fall of 2009 Wynton received France’s highest distinction, the insignia Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor that was first awarded by Napoleon Bonaparte. French Ambassador, His Excellency Pierre Vimont, captured the evening best with his introduction:
“We are gathered here tonight to express the French government’s recognition of one of the most influential figures in American music, an outstanding artist, in one word: a visionary…
I want to stress how important your work has been for both the American and the French. I want to put the emphasis on the main values and concerns that we all share: the importance of education and transmission of culture from one generation to the other, and a true commitment to the profoundly democratic idea that lies in jazz music.
I strongly believe that, for you, jazz is more than just a musical form. It is tradition, it is part of American history and culture and life. To you, jazz is the sound of democracy. And from this democratic nature of jazz derives openness, generosity, and universality.”
Jazz at Lincoln Center
In 1987 Wynton Marsalis co-founded a jazz program at Lincoln Center. In July 1996, due to its significant success, Jazz at Lincoln Center was installed as new constituent of Lincoln Center, equal in stature with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Ballet - a historic moment for jazz as an art form and for Lincoln Center as a cultural institution. In October 2004, with the assistance of a dedicated Board and staff, Marsalis opened Frederick P. Rose Hall, the world’s first institution for jazz. The complex contains three state-of-the-art performance spaces (including the first concert hall designed specifically for jazz) along with recording, broadcast, rehearsal and educational facilities. Jazz at Lincoln Center has become a preferred venue for New York jazz fans and a destination for travelers from throughout the world. Wynton presently serves as Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center and Music Director for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Under Wynton’s leadership, Jazz at Lincoln Center has developed an international agenda presenting rich and diverse programming that includes concerts, debates, film forums, dances, television and radio broadcasts, and educational activities.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is a mecca for learning as well as a hub for performance. Their comprehensive educational programming includes a Band Director’s Academy, a hugely popular concert series for kids called Jazz for Young People, Jazz in the Schools, a Middle School Jazz Academy, WeBop! (for kids ages 8 months to 5 years), an annual High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival that reaches over 2000 bands in 50 states and Canada, and online learning tools.
Giving Back
Wynton Marsalis has devoted his life to uplifting populations worldwide with the egalitarian spirit of jazz. And while his body of work is enough to fill two lifetimes, Wynton continues to work tirelessly to contribute even more to our world’s cultural landscape. It has been said that he is an artist for whom greatness is not just possible, but inevitable. The most extraordinary dimension of Wynton Marsalis, however, is not his accomplishments but his character. It is the lesser-known part of this man who finds endless ways to give of himself.
It is the person who waited in an empty parking lot for one full hour after a concert in Baltimore, waiting for a single student to return from home with his horn for a trumpet lesson. It is the citizen who personally funds scholarships for students and covers medical expenses for those in need. Immediately following Hurricane Katrina, Wynton organized the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Concert and raised over $3 million for musicians and cultural organizations impacted by the hurricane. At the same time, he assumed a leadership role on the Bring Back New Orleans Cultural Commission where he was instrumental in shaping a master plan that would revitalize the city’s cultural base. Wynton Marsalis has selflessly donated his time and talent to non-profit organizations throughout the country to raise money to meet the many needs within our society. From My Sister’s Place (a shelter for battered women) to Graham Windham (a shelter for homeless children), the Children’s Defense Fund, Amnesty International, the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, Food For All Seasons (a food bank for the elderly and disadvantaged), Very Special Arts (an organization that provides experiences in dance, drama, literature, and music for individuals with physical and mental disabilities) to the Newark Boys Chorus School (a full-time academic music school for disadvantaged youths) and many, many more - Wynton responded enthusiastically to the call for service. It is Wynton Marsalis’ commitment to the improvement of life for all people that portrays the best of his character and humanity.
HONORARY DEGREES
1988
1. Brown University (Doctor of Music)
2. Southern University at New Orleans (Doctor of Music)
1990
3. University at Buffalo - State University of New York (Doctor of Music)
1992
4. Boston University (Doctor of Music)
1993
5. Academy of Southern Arts and Letters (Doctor of Philosophy in Arts)
1994
6. University of Miami (Doctor of Music)
1995
7. Hunter College (Doctor of Humane Letters)
8. Manhattan School of Music (Doctor of Music)
9. Princeton University (Doctor of Arts)
10. Yale University (Doctor of Music)
1996
11. Brandies University (Doctor of Humane Letters)
12. Columbia University (Doctor of Music)
13. Governors State University (Doctor of Humane Letters)
14. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Doctor of Fine Arts)
15. Royal Academy of Music (Honorary Member)
16. University of Scranton (Doctor of Fine Arts)
1997
17. Amherst College (Doctor of Music)
18. Howard University (Doctor of Music)
19. Long Island University (Doctor of Music)
20. Rutgers University (Doctor of Fine Arts)
1998
21. Bard College (Doctor of Fine Arts)
22. Haverford College (Doctor of Humane Letters)
1999
23. University of Massachusetts Amherst (Doctor of Fine Arts)
2000
24. Middlebury College (Doctor of Arts)
25. University of Pennsylvania (Doctor of Music)
2001
26. Clark Atlanta University (Doctorate of Humane Letters)
27. Connecticut College (Doctor of Fine Arts)
2004
28. Bloomfield College (Doctor of Fine Arts)
2007
29. New York University (Doctor of Fine Arts)
2009
30. Harvard University (Doctor of Music)
31. Northwestern University (Doctor of Arts)
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The Very Thought Of You
Wynton Marsalis Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'The Very Thought Of You' by these artists:
Aaron Neville The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Al Bowlly I don't need your photograph to keep by my bed Your…
Al Bowlly & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Al Bowlly & The Ray Noble Ochestra I don't need your photograph to keep by my bed Your…
Al Bowlly & the Ray Noble Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Al Bowlly - Topic I don't need your photograph to keep by my bed Your…
Al Bowlly and Monia Liter The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Al Bowlly feat. Ray Noble and His Orchestra The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Al Bowlly/Bud Noble I don't need your photograph to keep by my bed Your…
Al Bowlly/Ray Noble & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Albert King The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Albert King & John Lee Hooker The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Albert King John Lee Hooker The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
alpha & omega Genius Sounds What you thought Tell me what you thought What…
Ambrose & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Andy Williams The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Anne Ducros I took a trip on a train And I thought about…
Art Farmer Seems that I read, or somebody said That out of sight…
Ashley Brown I don't need your photograph to keep by my bed You…
Barbara Lea The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Barney Kessel Joe Comfort Sarah Vaughan The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Benny Carter Benny Carter and His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Billie Holiday the very thought of you and i forget to do those little…
Billie Holiday Her Orchestra The very thought of you And I forget to do Those little…
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra The very thought of you And I forget to do Those little…
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra The very thought of you And I forget to do Those little…
Billie Holiday Nina Simone & Ella Fitzgerald The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Billie Holiday; Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra The very thought of you And I forget to do Those little…
Billie Holiday|Lester Young The very thought of you And I forget to do Those little…
Billy Eckstine The very thought of you and I forget to do…
bing crosby with georgie stoll and his orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Bobby Hackett The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
BudaMunk & J.Lamotta Is this thing on Oh it's on Aye Aye So you thought that nigg…
Buddy Morrow & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Buddy Morrow And His Big Band I lost at love before, Got mad and closed the door. But…
Buzz & Al I don't need your photograph to keep by my bed Your…
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Carolyn Martin I took a trip on a train And I thought about…
Carroll Gibbons And His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Cassandra Wilson The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Catherine Russell I don′t need your photograph To keep by my bed Your picture…
Charles Brown The very thought of you And I forget to do Those little…
Charlie Haden & Kenny Barron I took a trip on a train, and I thought…
Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Chet Baker I get along without you very well Of course I do Except…
Chet Baker & Elvis Costello The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Chris Botti (Paula Cole) The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Chris Montez The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Claire Martin I get along without you very well Of course, I do Except…
Cleo Laine Seems that I read, or somebody said That out of sight…
Cole Nat King The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Cole Paula The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Connick Harry Jr. The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Connie Francis The very thought of you and I forget to do…
David Rose & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Delicatessen The very thought of you And i forget to do The little…
Diana Ross & Lionel Richie I lost at love before, Got mad and closed the door. But…
Diane Schuur The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Dick Haymes The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Don McLean The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Doris Day feat. Harry James The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Doris Day Harry James And His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Doris Day; Harry James & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Doris Day;Harry James & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Elvis Costello The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Elvis Costello; Marian McPartland The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Emilie-Claire Barlow The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Enoch Light I lost at love before, Got mad and closed the door. But…
Enoch Light & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Etta James The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Flip Phillips; Woody Herman I lost at love before, Got mad and closed the door. But…
Francis Scott & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
G.B.L 웃지마 너 재수 없어 웃지마 붙지마 좀 가까이 좀 붙지마 속지마 내가…
Gene Krupa and His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
George Stoll The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Georgie Stoll and His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Helen Humes The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Hibbler - Al The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Izzy Chait I took a trip on a train And I thought about…
J.J. Johnson Jesus, the very thought of thee with sweetness fills the…
J.J. Johnson & Robert Farnon And His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Jackie Ryan I took a trip on a train And I thought about…
Jerry Goldsmith The very thought of you And I forget to do Those little…
Jerry Vale The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Joe Loss & His Band I lost at love before, Got mad and closed the door. But…
Joe Reisman & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Joe Williams The very thought of you, and I forget to do The…
joe williams and harry "sweets" edison The very thought of you, and I forget to do The…
Johnny Hartman The very thought of you And I forget to do…
Johnny Hodges;Cat Anderson;Lawrence Brown;Jimmy Hamilton;Jimmy Jones;Bill Berry;Les Spann;Aaron Bell Seems that I read, or somebody said That out of sight…
Johnny Mathis The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Johnny Mercer I took a trip on a train And I thought about…
Johnson J.J. Is this thing on Oh it's on Aye Aye So you thought that nigg…
Jon Batiste The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Kathie Lee Gifford The very thought of you And I forget to do…
Kay Starr The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Ken Mackintosh & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Kenny Barron & Mulgrew Miller I took a trip on a train, and I thought…
Kenny Rankin The very thought of you And I forget to do…
Kristin Chenoweth feat. Dave Koz The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Leon Russell The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Lew Stone & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Lisa Fox The very thought of you The very mention of your name Babe…
Lisa Stansfield The very thought of you The very mention of your name Babe…
Little Willie John The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Louis Prima The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Ludmila Fernández I took a trip on the train and I thought…
Mantovani & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Manuel And The Music Of The Mountains My father told me, lying on his bed of death, "boy,"…
Marcell The very thought of you, and I forget to do The…
Marian McPartland & Elvis Costello The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Mary Martin The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Max Steiner The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Maxine Sullivan The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Meiko The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Mel Tormé I lost at love before, Got mad and closed the door. But…
Michael Bolton The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Michael Bublé The very thought of you And I forget to do…
Monia Liter The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
N.C I thought you'd love me All you did it brought me…
Nancy Wilson I don't need your photograph to keep by my bed Your…
Nat "King" Cole the very thought of you and I forget to do The little…
Nat King Cole The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole The very thought of you, and I forget to do, the little…
Nat King Cole - Topic The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Nat King Cole(냇 킹 콜) The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Natalie & Nat King Cole The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Natalie Cole The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Neil Sedaka The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Nellie McKay The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Nicole Henry The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Nnenna Freelon Seems that I read, or somebody said That out of sight…
Noble I don't need your photograph to keep by my bed Your…
noble ray The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
paul mccartney The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Perry Como The very thought of you, and I forget to do…
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Ray Noble Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Ray Noble, Al Bowlly The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Ray Noble/Al Bowlly The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Rick Nelson The very thought of you, and I forget to do…
Robert Bentley and His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Rod Stewart The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Rusty Clanton the very thought of you and i forget to do those little…
Sam "The Man" Taylor and His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Sammy Kaye The very thought of you and I forget to do…
Smith Jimmy I get along without you very well Of course I do Except…
Stacey Kent The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Stan Getz I took a trip on a train, and I thought…
Steve Tyrell The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
Susie Arioli ""The very thought of you I forget to do Those little ordina…
Ted Heath and His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
The Four Freshmen The very thought of you and I forget to do…
The Hot Club of San Francisco The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
The Nelson Riddle Orchestra I get along without you very well Of course I do Except…
The Ray Noble Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Tony Bennett duet with Ana Carolina The very thought of you And I forget to do Those little…
Tony Bennett feat. Paul McCartney The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Tuck & Patti I took a trip on a train And I thought about…
Tyrell Steve The very thought of you And I forget to do The little…
V.A. Everytime we try They end up breaking up your heart Huh, no…
Vaughn Monroe The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Vic Damone The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Vic Mignogna At the very thought of you a smile surrounds my…
Victor Young and His Orchestra The very thought of you and I forget to do The…
Woody Herman And His Big Band I lost at love before, Got mad and closed the door. But…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Wynton Marsalis:
A Sleepin' Bee When a bee Lies sleeping In the palm Of your hand You′re bew…
A Wheel Within a Wheel The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and…
After Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could…
After You've Gone Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could…
All the Whores Go Crazy All the whores go crazy About the way I ride All…
Angel Eyes She blinded me with her light It's such a beautiful sight …
Autumn Leaves The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of…
Baby I Love You Oh baby, I love you Oh baby, I love you In the…
Basin Street Blues Won't you come along with me To the Mississippi We'll take a…
Black and Blue Cold empty bed Springs hard as lead Feel like old Ned Wished…
Buddy Bolden's Blues Thought I heard Buddy Bolden say Yeah, you're awful, you're …
Buddy's Horn Did you ever hear about New Orleans And the sound of…
Caravan Night and stars above that shine so bright The myst'ry…
Cherokee Brave Indian warrior Since first I met you I can't forget …
Come on Children Oh, the old cow died, And the old man cried. Oh,…
Dinah Whoa, Dinah Is there anyone finer In the state of Carolina? …
East Of The Sun East of the sun and west of the moon We'll build…
Everything Happens To Me Black cats creep across my path Until I'm almost mad I must…
Feeling Of Jazz I feel so lonely tonight My heart is cold and my…
Find Me I see I see shattered people Roaming the streets Night and d…
Foggy Day I was a stranger in the city Out of town were…
For All We Know For all we know We may never meet again Before we go Make…
Four In One The house I live in, a plot of earth, a…
Free For All For all we know We may never meet again Before we go Make…
From The Plantation To The Penitentiary From the Plantation To the Penitentiary From the yassuh boss…
Funky Butt Thought I heard Buddy Bolden say Yeah, you're awful, you're …
Ghost In the House The house I live in, a plot of earth, a…
Go Possum Go All the whores go crazy About the way I ride All…
Goodbye Don't like goodbyes, tears or sighs I'm not too good at…
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be li…
He And She (What cause country bluesmen to claim a man and a woman…
Heaven Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven Don't you…
How Are Things In Glocca Morra I hear a bird, Londonderry bird, It well may be he's…
I Can't Get Started I've flown around the world in a plane I've settled…
I Cover The Waterfront I cover the waterfront, I'm watching the sea,, Will the one …
I Guess I I cover the waterfront, I'm watching the sea,, Will the on…
I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry The torch I carry is handsome It's worth its heartache in…
I'll Remember April This lovely day will lengthen into evening We'll sigh goodby…
In a Sentimental Mood In A Sentimental Mood I can see the stars come…
In the House of Laberriere The house I live in, a plot of earth, a…
Intro to Buddy Bolden Thought I heard Buddy Bolden say Yeah, you're awful, you're …
It Never Entered My Mind Once I laughed when I heard you saying That I'd be…
It's Easy To Remember It's not that easy bein' green, having to spend each day…
JUST FRIENDS Just friends, lovers no more Just friends, but not like befo…
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Oh the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so…
Little Drummer Boy Come, they told me pa-rum pum pum pum Our newborn King…
Love And Broken Hearts I don't need good looks To sell no cars or beer TVs,…
Make Me a Pallet on the Floor Make me a pallet on your floor Make me a pallet…
New Orleans Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans And…
O Come All Ye Faithful O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O…
Poem (What cause country bluesmen to claim a man and a woman…
Red Hot Mamas You've got to shake and bump And grind it all night…
Rosewood Morning sunshine. Conquer me. Sounds alarming. Can't set me …
Round 'Bout Midnight It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty well…
Russian Lullaby Every night you'll hear a croon A Russian lullaby Oh just a…
Silent Night Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round …
Skylark Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me…
Sleepytime Down South Homesick tired All alone in a big city Why should…
Sleigh Ride Just hear those sleigh bells jingle-ing Ring ting tingle-…
Song Is You I hear music when I look at you, A beautiful theme…
Street Of Dreams Midnight, you heavy laden, it's midnight Come on and trade i…
Supercapitalism Gimme that. Gimme this. Gimme that. Gimme this. Gimme that. …
Taking A Chance On Love Here I go again, I hear those trumpets blow again. All…
The Party's Over The party's over, it's time to call it a day They've…
The Song Is You I hear music when I look at you, A beautiful theme…
The Sun And The Moon East of the sun and west of the moon We'll build…
These Are Those Soulful Days These are those soulful days . . .…
Think Of One Broken windows and empty hallways A pale dead moon in the…
Tiger Rag Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger! …
We Three Kings We three kings of orient are, Bearing gifts we traverse afar…
What Is This Thing Called Love I was a hum-drum person Leading a life apart When love flew…
What Is This Thing Called Love? I was a hum-drum person Leading a life apart When love fle…
Wheel Within A Wheel The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and…
When It Homesick tired All alone in a big city Why should…
When You Wish Upon a Star When a star is born They possess a gift or two One…
Where Or When It seems we stood and talked like this before We looked…
Where Y'All At You got to speak the language the people Are speakin' Speci…
Winter Wonderland Sleigh bells ring, are you listening In the lane, snow is…
Yesterdays Yesterdays, yesterdays Days I knew as happy Sweet sequeste…
You Don't Know What Love Is You don't know what love is 'Til you've learned the meaning…
You Rascal You Boy, you know one thing I'll sure be glad when you're…
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