00:44 Allison Introduces Ellis Marsalis. 01:52 Allison asks about his parents and his early interest in music; Ellis says that his mother was very supportive of his love for music. He went to Xavier University of music during high school and went to Gilbert Academy and P.S 935 for high school education. 03:27 Marsalis was from Jefferson Parish and had to go to private school because there was not a blacks-only high school. 04:46 Marsalis talks about the music played during Mardi during his youth which was his first inspiration to play music. He first played the clarinet but played very little jazz because of the nuns at his high school 06:15 Many other prolific musicians got their start at Marsalis’s high school; Marsalis got a tenor saxophone and he began a band called “The Groovey Boys” 08:25 They learned from recordings and practiced with popular music; Marsalis cites that “getting girls” was his biggest motivation in high school 10:20 Ellis studied Performance at Dillard and joined the Marine Corp; he played in a quartet which performed weekly on the radio and on tv 12:15 This is when Marsalis got better at piano compared to his saxophone skills; he retuned to New Orleans and got married; he opened a jazz club in 1962 which was started in his parents house and lasted for about 6 months 15:08 Marsalis started teaching after his club failed; he reminds the crowd that at this time, rock’n’roll was controlling the radio and jazz was being pushed out of radio; he says that television homogenized everyone along with the spread of rock music 18:40 Ellis says that during this time, the guitar was replacing the saxophone and everyone was playing rock’n’roll; he says that it took 20 years for people to realize that rock’n’roll was about money while jazz had remained in the underground. 20:44 Jazz is now played on college radio and NPR, a trend Ellis noticed in the 80s; Ellis says that jazz-fusion developed which had the jazz solos over intense rock. 23:11 Ellis wrote the song Swinging at the Haven while at the Music Haven; the song plays. 25:15 Marsalis played at the Playboy Club where Allison first saw him; he calls the club a social science experiment of extreme Louisiana wealth. 27:55 In New Orleans at the time, black musicians could not play on the same stage as white musicians which caused many of the best traveling house musicians to skip the venue. 28:29 Ellis started teaching after the Playboy club in 1963 and taught jazz improvisation. 31:48 Marsalis moved away to Brow Bridge, Virginia in 1986 for teaching but always remained connected to New Orleans. 32:33 The Dean of New Orleans University offered him a professorship to teach compesition; UNO has developed a program which is jazz-oriented that gives a composite education. 37:34 Ellis Marsalis says he will later play with Alonzo Boeing, Dewey Samson, Jason Marsalis, and Rodrick Harper. 39:42 Marsalis sits down at the piano and demonstrates to compositions for the crowd
