He studied at Juilliard before joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1980 and is currently the artistic director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center program.  
His latest release is The Marciac Suite, dedicated to a rural French jazz festival.  His classical recordings include the baroque compilation, In Gabriel's Garden as well as the Octoroon Balls for a string quartet and the ballets, Sweet Release and Ghost Story.  He studied at Juilliard before joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1980 and is currently the artistic director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center program.  In 1997 he became the first jazz musician to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his oratorio on slavery, Blood in the Fields.  FTP, name this master of the trumpet, son of Ellis and brother to Branford.
His latest release is The Marciac Suite, dedicated to a rural French jazz festival.  
Wynton Marsalis (prompt on just last name)