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New Orleans jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis dead at 85

NEW ORLEANS — Ellis Marsalis, the jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Marsalis’ death in a news release Wednesday night. She did not specify a cause of death.

 

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