The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

6/10/2010

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2010.048

Jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis, Jr. (1934 - ) directed Jazz Studies at the University of New Orleans from 1989 to 2001. He was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame on December 7, 2008. Marsalis was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/10/2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 00m 00s

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Jazz pianist and music professor Ellis Louis Marsalis, Jr., was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 14, 1934. As a youth, Marsalis played clarinet. From the age of eleven, he studied the clarinet at Xavier University's Junior School of Music (New Orleans), a preparatory course for the university. He would later ask his mother to get him a tenor saxophone so he could begin playing Rhythm "n Blues, the popular music of the day. He added piano to his studies while still in high school.Marsa...