New Orleans master mentor Ellis Marsalis played an exploratory, growing meditation on "Winter Wonderland, " anchored by brooding left-hand ostinato chords.

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In addition to that, right across the street behind you is a place where we'll have the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music and five elder-friendly doubles.

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Wilson grew up in Virginia and earned a music scholarship to Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he performed and studied with Lionel Hampton, the Heath Brothers and Ellis Marsalis.

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