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Branford Marsalis is his older brother and Jason Marsalis and Delfeayo Marsalis are younger. All three are jazz musicians. [4] While sitting at a table with trumpeters Al Hirt, Miles Davis, and Clark Terry, his father jokingly suggested that he might as well get Wynton a trumpet, too.
Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. (November 14, 1934 – April 1, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and educator. Active since the late 1940s, Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of the musical Marsalis family, when sons Branford and Wynton became popular jazz musicians.
Apr 19, 2021 · After separating with Marsalis, the actress got married to mixed-media artist Radcliffe Bailey, in 2009. Besides his three sons, Marsalis also has a daughter named Oni; however, the artistic director of Jazz has not disclosed the mother of his daughter.
Marsalis family, American family, considered the ‘first family of jazz,’ who (particularly brothers Wynton and Branford) had a major impact on jazz in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Other members include Ellis and Delfeayo. Learn more about the Marsalis family.
Wynton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 18, 1961, to jazz pianist and music educator Ellis Marsalis Jr. and Dolores Marsalis. He is the second of six sons, preceded by Branford Marsalis and followed by siblings Ellis III, Delfeayo, Mboya and Jason.
Jan 17, 2018 · The Marsalis family has not traditionally been known for its literary achievements, but that’s about to change. Simeon Marsalis, 27-year-old son of Wynton—as well as a former Division I point guard—published his first novel last October through Catapult.
Apr 3, 2020 · Fresh Air celebrates Ellis Marsalis, who died April 1 of COVID-19, by listening back to interviews with two of his sons. Branford spoke of his father in 2002; Wynton's interview is from 1994.
Aug 4, 2001 · Incredible as it sounds, they’ve never recorded together as a family. On August 4, 2001, at the University of New Orleans, they performed with their father, the esteemed pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis in a concert that marked his retirement from the school’s jazz department.
The Marsalis brothers grew up in a superior family environment (“We had a father – we were ahead of most black cats right there”). There are now six brothers: the others are 17, 16, 11, and 5. Ellis Marsalis, to whom his sons were always close, encouraged them in their ambitions.
His brothers are Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis III (1964), Delfeayo Marsalis, and Mboya Kenyatta (1971). Branford, Wynton, and Delfeayo are also jazz musicians. At age 6, Marsalis took lessons from legendary New Orleans drummer James Black.
