8 thoughts on “ Poem 4 - Wynton Marsalis - He And She (CD, Album) ”

1. "On 30th March, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, trumpeter and band leader Wynton Marsalis will release his 5th Blue Note recording "He and She". Inspired by Max Roach's "Jazz in 3/4 Time" and Duke Ellington's "Lady Mac", Wynton looked at the waltz tempo in a jazz context.

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2. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of He And She on Discogs. Label: Blue Note - 5 2 9 • Format: CD Album, Promo • Country: US • Genre: Jazz • Wynton Marsalis - He And She (, CD) | Discogs.

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3. The 22 tracks are interspersed with 10 poems dramatically recited by Marsalis and range in length from 13 seconds (opening "Poem 1") to over 5 minutes ("He and she" which bookends the collection appearing at the end with Marsalis declaring "A man and a woman is a dangerous thing, a train, a banjo and a chicken wing")/5(12).

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4. Wynton Marsalis, ever the protagonist and explorer, brings his love of the spoken word and the adolescent relations of the male and female persuasion during He and She, a collection of instrumental mainstream jazz pieces with poetry as pirimidnaamase.sioprovcabradeperfscormarcodenmenssol.coed by the tone of the Jon Hendricks epic Evolution of the Blues Song, Marsalis uses math equations, the sun and the 7/

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5. Listen free to Wynton Marsalis – He And She (Poem, School Boy and more). 22 tracks (). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at pirimidnaamase.sioprovcabradeperfscormarcodenmenssol.co

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6. A new album after last year’s triumphant release and this one is based around the concept of the different stages in a male-female relationship with occasional and relatively short poem interludes .

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7. The longest track, The Razor Rim, is described as "swinging 3/4, Elvin Jones 5/4, refined burn-out 4/4 swing, modern 4/4 swing" - suggesting the breadth of Wynton's conception. But he also refers in the opening verse to "country bluesmen" and A Train, A Banjo and A Chicken Wing is a confident blues which shuffles along mannishly, even though it.

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8. The album is filled with many different styles of jazz, interspersed with brief spoken word tracks that make for a very well thought out, interesting and sometimes quite humorous story. However, this is nearly all music. I must say that in addition to Wynton's virtuoso trumpet playing, the band playing with him on "He And She" is STELLAR!!

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