C1'E 'JJortlanh © bseruer____________________ March 25.2009 Page AI2 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 Michael Tillery Broker 503.975.8004 michael @ bridgetownrealty.com Please call me, your neighborhood specialist, for any o f your Real Estate needs. M y success is built on a com m itm ent to quality service. 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." W MMMSRMHRMMMMMHW MMMMNMMNI BRID G ETO W N r REALTY 1 Film Explores Future Cities O ver h alf the w orld’s popu­ lation will live in urban cities by 2060 with as m any as 10 mega- cities with more than 20 million people in each. As the popula­ tion grows and resources shrink, w ill th e re be s u s ta in a b ility w ithin these cities? The next c o m m u n ity M ulticultural Film Festival at Jefferson High School will ex- ENTER Poetry at M iracles — Local and national artists and m usicians share an evening o f spoken w ord and music at the M iracles Club, 4069 N.E. M artin Luther King Jr. Blvd., each W ednesday, be- tw ee n 7 :3 0 p .m .an d 9 :3 0 p .m . sexy soi o f the Snudar trow ~f)tn to 1 Ipm (-/'¡y ) /' i'orfland's hot lust dunce chth Legendary Soul Diva - Linda Hombuckle with special guest A coustic M inds will perform Saturday, April 4 at 9 p.m. at the new expanded M ississippi Studios, 3939 N. M ississippi. Tickets are $ 12 at the door. C ^ V e l e v a n t £ ^ w ea d er sh i|> ^ ■ ^ ’raining tl lllk I \c r\ Suiiilm sinning Match 1st from ~ 1 I pm nidv onic plore our future in the docum en­ tary “Reinventing the World: Cit­ ies” on Monday, April 6 at 6 p.m. Film narrator Des K ennedy will lead the discussion through an exploration o f various cities from East L. A. to Curitiba, Bra­ zil. This film even touches down Michael E Harper We moved to our new location at: 9713 S.W. Capitol, Portland, OR 503-221-3050 Fax 503-227-8757 iM te a a w c i A gent