Ellis Marsalis Jr., jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan that includes famed performer sons Wynton and Branford, has died after battling pneumonia brought by the new coronavirus, at the age of 85.Ellis Marsalis III confirmed in a phone interview with The Associated Press that his father's death was brought about by the virus that is causing the global pandemic.'Pneumonia was the actual thing that caused his demise.
But it was pneumonia brought on by COVID-19,' said the younger Marsalis, speaking of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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