Jazz Patriarch Ellis Marsalis Dead Of COVID At 85
(ArtsJournal Theatre)

“[A] pianist and educator, [he] became the guiding force behind a late-20th-century resurgence in jazz. ... Photogenic, erudite and fabulously talented, Mr. Marsalis’s children and many other young jazz musicians he had taught - including Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison Jr., Harry Connick Jr. and Nicholas Payton - became the leaders in a burgeoning traditionalist movement, […]