He and She (album)
| He and She | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | March 24, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | August 24 – 25, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 75:07 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
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He and She is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, released in 2009. The album peaked at number 6 on the Top Jazz Albums chart of Billboard magazine.[1]
Music
[edit]A reviewer at DownBeat commented: "Using the vernacular of Langston Hughes, but writing in a formal, Olympian style inspired by Irish national poet William Butler Yeats, Marsalis alternates between words and music, reciting a stanza then dramatizing its theme with his quintet. At the end, he strings all the stanzas together, declaiming his long poem about the trials of love in a satisfying finale."[2]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks are written by Wynton Marsalis
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Poem" | 0:12 |
| 2. | "School Boy" | 6:48 |
| 3. | "Poem" | 0:27 |
| 4. | "The Sun and the Moon" | 6:31 |
| 5. | "Poem" | 0:10 |
| 6. | "Sassy" | 5:17 |
| 7. | "Poem" | 0:16 |
| 8. | "Fears" | 3:31 |
| 9. | "Poem" | 0:16 |
| 10. | "The Razor Rim" | 12:05 |
| 11. | "Poem" | 1:01 |
| 12. | "Zero" | 2:17 |
| 13. | "Poem" | 0:36 |
| 14. | "First Crush" | 1:52 |
| 15. | "First Slow Dance" | 4:37 |
| 16. | "First Kiss" | 3:21 |
| 17. | "First Time" | 4:47 |
| 18. | "Poem" | 1:06 |
| 19. | "Girls!" | 5:46 |
| 20. | "Poem" | 0:59 |
| 21. | "A Train, a Banjo, and a Chicken Wing" | 8:12 |
| 22. | "He and She" | 5:00 |
Personnel
[edit]- Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
- Walter Blanding – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet
- Dan Nimmer – piano
- Carlos Henriquez – bass
- Ali Jackson – drums
References
[edit]- ^ "Wynton Marsalis | Awards". AllMusic. 1961-10-18. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
- ^ de Barros, Paul (June 2009) "Wynton Marsalis – He and She". DownBeat. p. 57.