American pianist Ellis Marsalis has passed away at the age of 85 after contracting COVID-19. The father of renowned musicians, Wynton and Branford Marsalis was suffering from pneumonia, caused by Coronavirus, one of his sons told the Associated Press. “Pneumonia was the actual thing that caused his demise," Ellis Marsalis III said. "But it was pneumonia brought on by COVID-19," he added.
LaToya Cantrell, the Mayor of his home town New Orleans, described Ellis Marsalis as "a legend, the prototype of what we mean when we talk about New Orleans jazz." The result of the Jazz patriarch's Coronavirus report is still pending but the pianist is suspected to have contracted the novel COVID-19 as he showed symptoms of the same.
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