Wycliffe Gordon experiences an impressive career, touring the world while performing to great acclaim from audiences and critics alike.
The Jazz Journalists Association has named Wycliffe "Trombonist of the Year" nearly a dozen times, and he has won the trombone category in the DownBeat Critics Poll on numerous occasions (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018). In 2018, Wycliffe received the Louie Award, honoring his dedication and commitment to the music of Louis Armstrong. He received the International Trombone Association Award in 2017, which recognizes the highest level of creative and artistic achievement. In 2015, Wycliffe was presented the Satchmo Award from the Jazz Club of Sarasota, received the Louis Armstrong Memorial Prize presented by the Swing Jazz Culture Foundation and was named "Artist of the Year" by the Greater Augusta Arts Council. He is also a past recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Vanguard Award, among others.
In addition to an extremely successful solo career, Wycliffe tours regularly as a leader of his quintet known as Wycliffe Gordon and His International All-Stars, headlining at legendary jazz venues and performing arts centers throughout the world. He is commissioned frequently and has an extensive catalog of original compositions that span the various timbres of jazz and chamber music. Musicians and ensembles of every caliber perform his music throughout the world, and his arrangement of the theme song to NPR's All Things Considered is heard daily across the globe.
Wycliffe is a former veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and has been a featured guest artist on Billy Taylor's Jazz at The Kennedy Center. Wycliffe is also one of America’s most persuasive and committed music educators. He is Visiting Artist in Jazz Studies at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD and Director of Jazz Studies at Augusta University in Augusta, GA
Wycliffe Gordon is a Yamaha Performing Artist and has his own line of Wycliffe Gordon Pro Signature Mouthpieces by Pickett Brass.
