Elton John and Bernie Taupin to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song klake.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from klake.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The songwriters who gave us “Your Song,” “Tiny Dancer” and “Rocket Man” will add to their stuffed awards shelf later this year when Elton John and Bernie
m Branford Marsalis, the jazz saxophonist and composer whose career includes movie scores, Grammy-winning recordings and a stint as the leader of The Tonight Show band, is taking on a new job in his hometown of New Orleans. Marsalis was to be named Tuesday as the new artistic director for the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music. The center is named for Branford s late father, patriarch of a family of accomplished New Orleans musicians that also includes trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis. The Ellis Marsalis Center for Music provides music and cultural education programs for young people and adults. It is part of the Musicians Village, a housing development built in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity. The elder Marsalis died in 2020, a victim of the covid-19 pandemic. "I hope to make my dad proud," Branford Marsalis, 63, said in a statement released ahead of Tuesday s official announcement.
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