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Ellis Marsalis

Title: Ruminations in New York

Label: ESP DISK

Cat No:ESP4000
Format:CD

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• A Striking solo piano album from the renowned New Orleans pianist, Ellis Marsalis who began his musical career as a tenor saxophonist, but switched to piano while in high school.

• During the late '50s, Ellis trod the lonely road of modernist jazz in New Orleans (with drummer Ed Blackwell), recorded with Cannonball and Nat Adderley in the '60s and between 1967 and 1970, played the piano in trumpeter Al Hirt's band.

• Ellis Marsalis has six sons, four of whom are well-known jazz musicians: Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason Marsalis.

• Since 1989, ellis has been the director of the jazz studies program at the university of New Orleans.

Track Listing for Ruminations in New York
1. Things That You Never Were
2. A Moment Alone
3. Haven’s Paradise
4. Homecoming
5. After
6. Tell Me
7. Somehow
8. Orchard Blue
9. Happiness Is The Thing
10. Chapter One
11. When First We Met
12. Zee Blues

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Ruminations in New York