Jazz musician Ellis Marsalis Jr passes away due to COVID-19

Jazz pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis Jr, aged 85, passed away in US' New Orleans due to complications from coronavirus (COVID-19). The late musician's son Branford Marsalis said in a statement that Ellis was admitted to a hospital on Saturday and "died peacefully" on Wednesday evening. "Ellis Marsalis was a legend," Mayor LaToya Cantrell wrote on Twitter.