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Marsalis has Passion for Jazz, Poetry
New CD
speaks to
relationships
(A P ) — W ynton M a rsa lis
doesn't leave hom e w ithout his
trum pet or book o f poem s, and
w hile on tour, he'll spend the
late night hours talking about
music and verse with the young
m em bers o f his band. O n his
n ew a lb u m , "H e a n d S he,"
M arsalis com bines his passions
for jazz and poetry in a rum ina Wynton Marsalis performs during the 2007 Future Leg
tion on the relationship between ends Awards at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in
a man and a w om an through the New York. (AP Photo)
years.
th e first tu n e fo r the alb u m
jazz and the blues.
M arsalis has com bined jazz
The m usical seed for the al "Girls!"
and the spoken w ord before, bum w as p lanted w hen Sean
M arsalis began w riting the
m o s t n o ta b ly o n h is 1997 Jones, M arsalis' fellow trum poem that serves as the album's
Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz ora peter in the Jazz at Lincoln C en framework while performing at
torio on slavery and freedom, ter O rchestra, turned him on to th e ja z z festiv al in M arciac,
"Blood on the Fields." On "He drum m er M ax Roach's 1957 al France, in 2006, drawing inspira
and She," M arsalis takes a more bum "Jazz In 3/4 Time," an al tion from Irish poet Yeats' "Un
lighthearted approach with frag bum o f jazz tunes in waltz time, der Ben Bulben" with its reflec
ments o f his original poem serv in c lu d in g te n o r sa x o p h o n ist tions on mortality. Marsalis be
ing as preludes to a collection Sonny Rollins' "Valse Hot." The gan thinking about the different
o f ja zz com positions covering trum peter's thoughts turned to kinds o f conversations he's had
a range o f styles — N ew O r the courtship ritual associated with women o f all ages.
leans street groove, hard bop w ith the waltz — and that re
"A g o o d frie n d o f m in e ,
and beyond, jazz waltzes, Latin sulted in what turned out to be (w riter) Stanley Crouch w ould
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tease me when one o f my girl
friends became impregnated, He
said one plus one equals three,"
said M arsalis, w ho has never
been m arried but has three sons
from p ast re la tio n sh ip s, the
youngest, 12-year-old Jasper,
w ith actress V ictoria Row ell
("T h e Y oung an d th e R e s t
less").
The crux o f the poem is the
different w ays m en and w om en
conceive o f their relationship.
One plus one m ight equal two
when you're a schoolboy, but
"in the arena o f rom ance one
plus one does not equal two,"
the 47-year-old M arsalis says.
"One plus one equals three
— me, you and the tw o o f us
together — that's like a man's
way o f looking at it. I've got my
thing, you've got your thing and
we com e together. A w om an's
way o f looking at it is we com e
together and w e're together, so
one plus one equals one. That
kind o f hum or is in beer com
m ercials. A w om an is alw ays
trying to m ake the m an com e
together, but he alw ays wants
to see his football gam e and
drink his beqr."
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