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This is a great album and the poems Wynton speaks don't take away anything from the music. He's obviously telling a story about love with this album. The front cover shows a little girl whispering a sassy piece in the boys ear and on the back it shows an older lady doing the same. The album is a bit sappy overall but it's a love story so I'm not complaining about that at all. There's lots of good things to like about this disc and School Boy is an interesting piece as it's a ragtime song. Beautifully done too. Every band member on this album is awesome and I don't know who Dan Nimmer is but boy he can play the piano!!! I loved him on this. There's a lot of blues tucked in this jazz, especially on A Train, a Banjo, and a Chicken Wing, which is an awesome track. The last track, He and She, is just all the poems voiced all together and it's nice to hear as one track but kinda pointless since we just heard all the poems throughout the whole album.
This ended up being my favourite jazz album of 2009. I borrowed this disc from the Library originally, then I burned it, and then I finally bought it. I love it that much!
Credits:
Trumpet, Voice [Poems] - Wynton Marsalis
Tenor & Soprano Saxophone - Walter Blanding
Piano - Dan Nimmer
Bass - Carlos Henriquez
Drums - Ali Jackson
10/10
