R.I.P. Dan Ellis
Just for fun, Eurekan plans his own jazz funeral
Posted: December 21, 2012 at 3:20 a.m.
Dan Ellis, pictured here among the jazz greats of New Orleans, will stage his own jazz funeral tonight in Eureka Springs — assuming the Mayans were wrong.
Jazz funerals are “peculiar to New Orleans alone among all American cities,” architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe noted in 1819.
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