Wynton Marsalis (Born 1961) American, Signed "Citi Movement" Poster. Depicts the jazz master standing at a distance in front of the Twin Towers, with the name of his septet and the title in the upper right corner, along with the word "Columbia" bottom right. Signed in pen middle right. Framed. 

"Citi Movement" is a jazz-focused score based on the aural and visual cacophony of the New York cityscape, created by Wynton Marsalis at the remarkable age of 30 for the modern ballet "Griot New York" by choreographer Garth Fagan. An extraordinary collaboration between leading African American artists of the late 1980s, it also featured set constructions by sculptor Martin Puryear and sold out its run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1991. The work was performed opening night by the Wynton Marsalis Septet and is still considered by critics to be one of the finest city-centric scores in musical theater history since "Seesaw" and "West Side Story." 

Overall Size: 25 x 13 in. 

Sight Size: 23 x 11 in. 

Wynton Learson Marsalis was born on October 18th, 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana into a family of musicians, and received his first trumpet at the age of six. He attended the Juilliard School of Music and settled in New York City in 1981 after leaving without his degree to focus on classical music, but a tour through Europe led him to refocus on jazz instead and record his first album. He has since become one of the most celebrated jazz artists in modern history, working solo, forming quintet and septet groups, and producing dozens of albums as a trumpeter, composer, music instructor, and currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music to young audiences, but his rejection of rock, pop, hip-hop, and rap in his straight-ahead jazz approach has led to criticism from many other professional musicians. Nevertheless, Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his 1997 oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year.

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