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Marsalis, Ellis

LC control no.n 88655408
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Personal name headingMarsalis, Ellis
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Variant(s)Marsalis, Ellis, Jr.
Other standard no.0000000114871374
2660924
Q487043
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1934-11-14
Death date2020-04-01
Place of birthNew Orleans (La.)
Place of deathNew Orleans (La.)
Profession or occupationJazz musicians Pianists Music teachers
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Found inFather & son [SR] p1987: container (Ellis Marsalis, piano)
Guinness enc. of pop. mus., 2nd ed. (Marsalis, Ellis; b. Nov. 14, 1934, New Orleans, La.; pianist)
Grove music online, viewed Feb. 13, 2006 (Ellis (Louis) Marsalis(,Jr.); b. New Orleans, 14 Nov 1934; pianist)
New York times, Apr. 3, 2020 (Ellis Marsalis; born Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr., Nov. 14, 1934 in New Orleans, died Wednesday [April 1, 2020], New Orleans of complications due to COVID-19, aged 85; a pianist and educator who was the guiding force behind a late-20th-century resurgence in jazz while putting four musician sons on a path to prominent careers; piano-playing patriarch of jazz's royal family; in 2011 the National Endowment for the Arts named Mr. Marsalis and his musician sons Jazz Masters)