He and She (album) explained

He and She
Type:studio
Artist:Wynton Marsalis
Cover:He and She Wynton Marsalis Album Cover.png
Recorded:August 24 – 25, 2007
Genre:Jazz
Label:Blue Note
Prev Title:Two Men with the Blues
Prev Year:2008
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Next Year:2009

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

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]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wynton Marsalis | Awards . . 1961-10-18 . 2017-03-03.
  2. de Barros, Paul (June 2009) "Wynton Marsalis – He and She". DownBeat. p. 57.