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Album: Wynton Marsalis, He and She (Blue Note)

Reviewed,Phil Johnson
Sunday 05 April 2009 00:00 BST
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The best tracks are the most modern, where Marsalis approaches the style of trumpeter Booker Little (who died in 1961), in airy quintet arrangements recalling Bill (father of Spike) Lee’s score for She’s Gotta Have It.

Download this: ‘The Sun and the Moon’, with Walter Blanding’s smoochy sax

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