Rare Works of Ellis Marsalis New York Performances

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.