NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans jazz legend's life was finally honored Sunday, more than two years after his death. Famed musician, Ellis Marsalis, died in April 2020, but a proper funeral couldn’t be ...
NEW ORLEANS -- Ellis Marsalis Jr., jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan that includes famed performer sons Wynton and Branford, has died after battling pneumonia brought ...
The Ellis Marsalis Center for Music has announced the official appointment of Branford Marsalis as the Center’s Artistic Director. Previously held by the center’s namesake Ellis Marsalis until his ...
Ellis Marsalis, Jr. died of complications from COVID-19 one year ago this week (April 1, 2020). To mark this anniversary, WWNO veteran and jazz historian Fred Kasten has devoted his weekly program, ...
An Ellis Marsalis documentary is on the way. In September of 2020, OffBeat talked to filmmaker Sascha Just, a New York and Berlin-based filmmaker who was documenting the life of Ellis Marsalis until ...
NEW ORLEANS — A memorial service and second line parade will be held in honor of famed New Orleans jazz musician Ellis Marsalis this Sunday, May 15. The memorial comes more than two years after ...
Ellis Marsalis Jr., the jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan, died late Wednesday from pneumonia brought on by the new coronavirus, leaving six sons and a deep legacy. He ...
SHERMAN WHAT AN OFF-SEANSO SUNDAY? THANK YOU SO MUCH. AFTER TWO YEARS OFHE T PANDEMIC DELAYING PLANS FOR MEMORIAL OR JAZZ GIANT GOT HIS LONG AWAITED SEND OFF TODAY HUNDREDS HONORED ELLIS MARSALIS ...
Concert features 1,000 musicians including students from Ellis Marsalis Center ...
When Ellis and Dolores Marsalis need to exhale, they flee to the country. The couple and their 30-year-old autistic son, Mboya, leave behind their longtime house in Carrollton for a second home ...
Ellis Marsalis is joined here by his quartet, which is made up of Jason Marsalis on Drums, Derek Douget on Saxophones, and Jason Stewart on Bass. From “Crepuscule with Nellie" through “Round Midnight" ...
This album is unique from the perspective that it is a completely live recording from musicians who had never played together in these groups before, and with no rehearsal. —Jerald Miller, Executive ...