[New-Poetry] Wynton Marsalis combines passions for jazz, poetry on ‘He and She’

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http://www.projo.com/music/content/artsun-Wynton-Marsalis_05-31-09_FJDOM49_v14.1b6972c.html

I started to put all these things together. I decided I would write a poem and then have some music come out of the poem. . . . I wanted the structure of the poem to have all kinds of threes in it . . . a man, a woman and a country bluesman; and things that are metaphors for that — the sun, the moon, the midnight sky.”


The crux of the poem is the different ways men and women conceive of their relationship. One plus one might equal two when you’re a schoolboy, but “in the arena of romance one plus one does not equal two,” the 47-year-old Marsalis says.


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