Milestones
Apr 10, 2020
2 minutes
By Harry Connick Jr.
DIED
Ellis Marsalis
Jazz royalty
ONE NIGHT DURING MY freshman year in high school, I called Ellis. The famed pianist, who died April 1 at 85 due to COVID-19, was my teacher—so it was “Mr. Marsalis” then, and I was terrified. One didn’t call him at home. But I’d found a chord progression I thought had
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