• Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and more sing to honor essential workers

    Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and more sing to honor essential workers

    Brad Pitt knows he’s made a few flops. The “Moneyball” actor surprised Darnell Rudolph, a waste management worker in New Orleans via video for a special “United We Sing: A Grammy Tribute to the Unsung Heroes” and the two chatted about how Rudolph is coping during the pandemic. Rudolph said that he and his family …
  • New Orleans jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis dead at 85

    New Orleans jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis dead at 85

    NEW ORLEANS — Ellis Marsalis, the jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Marsalis’ death in a news release Wednesday night. She did not specify a cause of death. He had continued …