LYRICS
This is Wynton Marsalis.
I want to tell you about Blue Interlude, which is my first extended piece on record.
Blue Interlude is a story about two mythic lovers, Sugar Cane and Sweetie Pie.
Their story is about dialogue, because as we know, all love stories are about dialogue.
There are about two people becoming one very delicious slice of spirit,
but never losing the things that make them individual.
Well now this is Sugar Cane:
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You can tell, he's a very decent, high, strong sort of fellow.
Perhaps, trapped in the gruffness of his own presentation.
But he's lucky, because his true personality is freed of his roughness
by the romantic confidence and tenderness of Sweetie Pie:
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Yet, as we all know, the story of love is never a simple thing.
There are sidetracks and backstreets along which emotions travel,
taking us on every direction but that of love.
In the end, our mythic lovers cared too much for each other
to let some problems gobbled up the soul of their satisfaction.
But those digressions, now, they form the drama of true romance.
Take fast as the first time, Sugar Cane recognized that special glow of soul in Sweetie Pie.
She was on the trumpet, swinging this:
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Well, that shock shook him so much he thought he would come back on up with some complexity.
On the trumpet, clarinet and trombone, he tried to do this:
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Sweetie Pie called on him with some soul on the alto saxophone, talking about:
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Then when she had it reeling, she hit him with some of that charm on the soprano saxophone, doing:
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That for sure is a serious move!
He knew that she was something he was gonna have to rise to the occasion to confront.
Now his seriousness was manifest on the trombone with this slow, soulful, dirge-like, plunge intuitive song:
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Then of course, there was this tremendous battle royale, that type of battle that we all know about.
As a matter of fact, something that people in the neighborhood are still talking about.
Sugar was clutching on this tenor, and Sweetie was frying him up on the alto.
But then doing that, and finally they settled down through a series of blueses, at which Sweetie was talking about this on the bass:
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And Sugar was talking about:
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Our love story like all love stories, is about dialogue, softness, fire, and elegance.
Most of all, it's about two people settling down into that subtle groove of illumination, that calls us all home to romance.
On the words of Sugar Cane:
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