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Wynton Marsalis sings praises of SFJazz as he takes spotlight at record-breaking fundraiser
What do you get a highly decorated musician like Wynton Marsalis — a nine-time Grammy winner, the first jazz artist to win a Pulitzer Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master? Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis takes democracy from ballot box to stage with Sonoma State online series
Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has long championed jazz as an art form that embodies democratic ideals, and during an interview with The Chronicle in the midst of Inauguration Day festivities, he often evoked some of the same soaring tropes that poet Amanda Gorman threaded through “The Hill We Climb.” Keep reading »