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A Conversation with Ellis & Jason Marsalis, Part Two

February 1, 2000 by: Bunny Matthews

As we learned in Part One of our conversation with Ellis and Jason Marsalis, brass band musicians are not necessarily talented, it is impossible to teach somebody to be a Louis Armstrong and we should all thank God (or Allah) that we’re not residing in Iraq. In case you were napping during the last few decades, Ellis is the chairman of the Department of Jazz Studies at the University of New Orleans, the Dean of New Orleans jazz pianists and the father of four formidable jazz musicians: tr...

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