# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellis-marsalis-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:53:25.884Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellis-marsalis-jr"
name: "Ellis Marsalis Jr."
slug: "ellis-marsalis-jr"
description: "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."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and educator (1934–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellis_Marsalis_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-11-14"
deathDate: "2020-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 215
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1719314/"
    handle:    "nm1719314"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ellismarsalis.com"
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    title: "Ellis Marsalis"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump