Jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis dies at 85

Updated April 2 2020 - 2:03pm, first published 1:57pm
New Orleans jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis has died aged 85.
New Orleans jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis has died aged 85.

Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died aged 85.

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