Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. Through performance, education and preservation, Jazz at Lincoln Center envisions and encourages a world in which musicians, composers, lifelong enthusiasts, and grade-school children alike are invited to come together to appreciate the down-home soul and sophistication of the sound of American democracy: Jazz.
Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, Wynton Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of American culture. His prominent position in American culture was solidified in April 1997, when he became the first jazz artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music for his work Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center.
