Ellis Marsalis, a New Orleans musical legend and patriarch of one of the most famous jazz families, is taking a retirement — of sorts.
He’s no longer doing the weekly gig he’s had for more than three decades.
Marsalis has performed at Snug Harbor on Frenchman Street every Friday for more than 30 years. But the Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported Wednesday that Marsalis told the club’s proprietor late last year it had become too exhausting to play his usual two 75-minute sets every Friday evening at the club, and he no longer wanted to do it.