Blood on the Fields

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Blood on the Fields is a large-scale jazz oratorio by Wynton Marsalis that explores the history and legacy of slavery in America and was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

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instanceOf jazz oratorio
musical composition
awardReceived Pulitzer Prize for Music
commissionedBy Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
composer Wynton Marsalis
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresPerformer Wynton Marsalis
featuresVocalist Cassandra Wilson
Jon Hendricks
Miles Griffith
firstPerformanceYear 1994
form oratorio
genre jazz
hasInstrumentation big band
rhythm section
vocal soloists
hasPart “Calling the Indians Out”
“Freedom Is in the Trying”
“Move Over”
“The Sun Is Gonna Shine”
“You Don’t Hear No Drums”
influencedBy African American musical traditions
blues
gospel music
language English
length full-evening work
mainTheme history of slavery
legacy of slavery
slavery in America
movementCount multiple movements
narrativeElement Middle Passage
plantation life
struggle for freedom
narrativeFocus enslaved African couple
notableAchievement first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music
numberOfDiscs 3
partOf Wynton Marsalis discography
performedBy Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
premiereCity New York City
premiereLocation Alice Tully Hall
publisher Columbia Records
PulitzerPrizeCategory Music
PulitzerPrizeYear 1997
recordingReleaseYear 1997
recordLabel Columbia Records
subject African American history
freedom and liberation
racism in the United States

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