Artist: John Ellis

John Axson Ellis is an American jazz saxophonist. He performed in the group Doublewide with Jason Marsalis. 

A native of North Carolina, Ellis learned clarinet and piano as a child. During the 1990s in New Orleans, he studied with Ellis Marsalis and performed with Brian Blade and Nicholas Payton. He released his debut album, Language of Love, independently in 1996.  He received a music degree from the New School in New York City and won second place in the 2002 Thelonius Monk Institue of Jazz International Saxophone Competition. He traveled to Africa as a cultural ambassador for the United States Information Agency.