Remembering Jazz Great Ellis Marsalis06:10

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Jazz pianist, composer and teacher Ellis Marsalis passed away Wednesday at age 85. His son Branford told The New York Times that the cause was complications from COVID-19.

Here & Now's Robin Young looks back at Marsalis' legacy with jazz historian Bruce Raeburn, a good friend of Marsalis and curator emeritus of Hogan Jazz Archive.

Click here for the video of Ellis Marsalis at the Jazz & Heritage Center