{"id":26073,"date":"2026-01-14T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=26073"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:38:23","slug":"wynton-marsalis-at-kalamazoo-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wynton-marsalis-at-kalamazoo-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynton Marsalis to Discuss Jazz, American Culture at Kalamazoo College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-k-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/advancement.kzoo.edu\/register\/JazzandAmericanCulture\"><strong>Register to Attend<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Jazz musician, band leader and composer Wynton Marsalis will join the Rev. Millard Southern III  on the campus of Kalamazoo College for a conversation about Marsalis\u2019 life in music, the history of jazz in the evolution of American culture, and the role arts education plays in a democratic society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/academic\/programs\/american-studies\/\">American Studies<\/a> Speaker Series, the conversation will be hosted by Charlene Boyer Lewis, the Larry J. Bell \u201980 Distinguished Chair in American History. It will take place at 11 a.m. Monday, February 2, in K\u2019s Dalton Theatre at Light Fine Arts. The event is free and open to the public with <a href=\"https:\/\/advancement.kzoo.edu\/register\/JazzandAmericanCulture\">advance registration required<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marsalis is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the director of jazz studies at The Juilliard School and president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. A world-renowned trumpeter, he is the winner of nine Grammy Awards, and he is the only musician to win a Grammy in two categories\u2014jazz and classical\u2014in the same year. In 1997, he became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his oratorio <em>Blood on the Fields<\/em>. His other honors include the National Medal of Arts in 2005, the National Humanities Medal in 2015 and the U.N. Messenger of Peace in 2001, in addition to honorary doctorates from universities such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A native of New Orleans, Marsalis has produced more than 100 albums and performed in more than 66 countries while advocating for jazz as a living art form and exploring its connections to democracy, social justice and American identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southern, a Chicago native, is an AME-ordained minister, jazz musician, writer, social activist and Western Michigan University doctoral candidate. His dissertation explores the intersection of race, religion, cultural democracy and the music of Wynton Marsalis. Since 2021, he has served as pastor of Allen Chapel AME Church in Kalamazoo, leading efforts to revitalize the city\u2019s Northside neighborhood. He is also a Shared Passages instructor at K, where he has offered courses such as Let Freedom Swing and Paris Noir. The latter was inspired by a 2023 research grant to study Black art, jazz and culture in Paris. He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics from Drake University and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation is supported by the Kalamazoo College American Studies Department with special funding from the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership and additional support from the Department of Music and College Advancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWynton Marsalis regards jazz and its improvisational qualities as fundamentally American\u2014and, in form and content, as contributing to current social justice efforts,\u201d Boyer Lewis said. \u201cHis visit to our campus is part of a wonderful continuum in an important strand of K\u2019s history that began with abolitionist founders James and Lucinda Hillsdale Stone, including connections to Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, and runs to and through figures such as James Baldwin, Angela Davis and Francis Fox Piven. We are lucky to have him as our 2026 American Studies Speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/marsalis_wynton-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Wynton Marsalis with his trumpet\" class=\"wp-image-26074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/marsalis_wynton-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/marsalis_wynton-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/marsalis_wynton-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/marsalis_wynton-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/marsalis_wynton-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/marsalis_wynton-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wynton Marsalis will speak Monday, February 2, at Kalamazoo College as a part of the American Studies Speaker Series.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/RSH-53-533x800.jpeg\" alt=\"Portrait of Millard Southern\" class=\"wp-image-26075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/RSH-53-533x800.jpeg 533w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/RSH-53-300x450.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/RSH-53-100x150.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/RSH-53-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/RSH-53-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/RSH-53-1200x1800.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/RSH-53-600x900.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/01\/RSH-53-scaled.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Rev. 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