Ellis Marsalis Jr. (85)

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Ellis Marsalis Jr. (85)

Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. was an American jazz pianist and educator. Active since the late 1940s, Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of a musical family, with sons Branford and Wynton also becoming notable musicians. He died of the coronavirus on April 1, 2020.