DER US-AMERIKANISCHE JAZZ-PIANIST ELLIS MARSALIS JR. IST GESTORBEN

Der am 14. November 1934 in New Orleans geborene US-amerikanische Jazzpianist und -pädagoge Ellis Marsalis (Bild) ist am 1. April 2020 an den Folgen der Lungenkrankheit Covid-19 ebenda gestorben. Er war der Vater der weltberühmten Musiker Branford Marsalis (Saxofonist) und Wynton Marsalis (Jazz-Trompeter und Komponist).

Foto: Charles M. Groff, U.S. Marine Corps, http://www.defenseimagery.mil, 2009 – public domain – Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jazz_musician_Ellis_Marsalis,_2009.JPG

Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jazz Pianist and Patriarch of a Musical Family, Dies at 85

Mr. Marsalis had spent decades as a working musician and educator in his native New Orleans – mentoring his own children as well as many other young musicians – before his sons Wynton and Branford found fame in the early 1980s.

Michael Levenson and Julia Carmel

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/arts/music/ellis-marsalis-dead-virus.html

Mehr:

http://www.ellismarsalis.com/

https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/ellis-marsalis

https://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/marsalis_e.html

https://www.discogs.com/artist/257123-Ellis-Marsalis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Marsalis_Jr.

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