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.
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."de Barros, Paul (June 2009) "Wynton Marsalis – He and She". DownBeat. p. 57.
Track listing
Personnel Wynton Marsalis – trumpet Walter Blanding – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet Dan Nimmer – piano Carlos Henriquez – bass Ali Jackson – drums
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