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 leads a program devoted to the lesser-known compositions of his father, pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis Jr. The ensemble—with Jason as leader on drums and vibraphone—treats these pieces as living repertoire, favoring structure and swing over display and drawing on the Marsalis family's bandstand traditions.
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 Presents the Rare Works of Ellis Marsalis
Jason Marsalis Presents the Rare Works of Ellis Marsalis centers on repertoire by pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis Jr., framed by Jason Marsalis’s leadership as drummer, vibraphonist, and composer. At Dizzy’s Club in New York City, the program treats Ellis’s lesser-heard compositions as working material, not museum pieces.
Jason Marsalis
Jason Marsalis is a jazz drummer, vibraphonist, composer, and bandleader from the Marsalis family, shaped by the musical and educational legacy of his father, pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. In New York City he appears at Dizzy’s Club, where he has led projects including *Jason Marsalis Presents the Rare Works of Ellis Marsalis*, centered on seldom-heard repertoire associated with his father.
Ellis Marsalis
Ellis Marsalis was a jazz pianist and educator whose career began in the postwar era and later came into wider view as a central figure in the Marsalis musical family. Best known for his work at the keyboard and in the classroom, he developed a reputation for shaping musicians as carefully as he shaped repertoire.