Jason Marsalis Presents the Rare Works of Ellis Marsalis
Thursday, November 5, 2026
7:00 PM
Dizzy's Club
Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY 10019
$24
Scheduled
About This Event
At Dizzy's Club, Jason Marsalis presents the Rare Works of Ellis Marsalis, a program built around compositions and repertoire by pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis Jr. Jason Marsalis — drummer, vibraphonist, composer and the youngest son in the Marsalis family — leads the ensemble, placing those pieces in the context of his father's long career and the family's influence on modern jazz.
About Rare Works of Ellis Marsalis
At Dizzy’s Club in New York, Jason Marsalis leads a set built from the lesser-heard compositions and repertoire of pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis Jr. The program treats Ellis Marsalis not only as a patriarch of a famous musical family, but as a working composer whose writing reflects the discipline of the bandstand and the classroom. In a city where the Marsalis name often signals canon, this show shifts attention to the margins of the catalog. It makes a quiet case for how much jazz history remains in the unfiled pages.
About the Artists
Jason Marsalis
Jason Ignatius Marsalis is an American jazz drummer, vibraphone player, composer, producer, band leader, and member of the Marsalis family of musicians. He is the youngest son of Dolores Ferdinand Marsalis and the late Ellis Marsalis, Jr.
Ellis Marsalis
Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. 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 Marsalis musical family, when sons Branford and Wynton became popular jazz musicians.