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Article: Album Review

Wallace Roney: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by Andrew Velez


Even as Jazz is a tribute to Roney's mentors Art Blakey, Miles Davis and Tony Williams, it is much more. The musical flavors here cover a spectrum of jazz feeling, everything from bop to fusion to funk and other local stops. “Vater Time," the set's jump-right-in opener, is a Roney tune that moves from a funky ...

Album

Jazz

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Vater Time; Children of the Light; Inflorescent; Fela

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News: Performance / Tour

Wallace Roney @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art on November 23, 2007

Wallace Roney  @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art on November 23, 2007

Wallace Roney brings his quintet to the Philadelphia Museum of Art on November 23, 2007. WALLACE RONEY QUINTET Wallace Roney - trumpet Antoine Roney - sax Eric Allen - drums Aruan Ortiz - piano Rashaan Carter - bass Friday November 23, 2007 ...

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Article: Album Review

Wallace Roney: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by John Kelman


In a time when the definition of the word jazz is in heated debate, it takes a certain amount of courage for trumpeter Wallace Roney to use it as the title of his third release for HighNote. Roney continues to mine the place where contemporary rhythms and technology meet the language of jazz, and while there ...

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Article: Album Review

Wallace Roney: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by John Barron


It's hard to imagine Wallace Roney making anything other than a bold statement with the trumpet. The Philadelphia native's razor sharp tone and vigorous pin-point precision has been on the cutting edge of modern jazz since his early days with Tony Williams and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. On Jazz, Roney, along with his wife Geri Allen ...

Album

Mystikal

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Atlantis; Mystikal; Stargaze; Just My Imagination; Hey Young World; Poetic; Baby's Breath; NiceTown; I'll Keep Loving You.

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Article: Interview

Wallace Roney: Fulfilling the Promise

Read "Wallace Roney: Fulfilling the Promise" reviewed by Paul Olson


Trumpeter Wallace Roney has been working in jazz for over thirty years. He made his recording debut at age fourteen and played in the bands of Tony Williams, Art Blakey, David Murray and Herbie Hancock—just to name a few. A bandleader on his own for many years, Roney has dazzling chops and has composed some classic ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Wallace Roney: Mystikal

Read "Wallace Roney: Mystikal" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Wallace Roney Mystikal HighNote Records 2005 Mystikal, Wallace Roney's second outing on the HighNote label, continues in the path he first traveled with the 2000 CD No Room For Argument in laying out his own vision for jazz in the 21st Century. In what is essentially a synthesis ...

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Article: Album Review

Wallace Roney: Mystikal

Read "Mystikal" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes


This amazing trumpet player blends the bebop tendencies of the Parker/Dizzy era with the more contemporary Miles Davis jazz-fusion sound, and he's one of few leaders to include a turntable player in his band. In fact, it was the work of turntablist Val Jeanty that most impressed at Roney's recent appearance at Joe's ...

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Article: Album Review

Wallace Roney: Mystikal

Read "Mystikal" reviewed by John Kelman


We're all the sum of our experiences. Few can say that their lives haven't been influenced in some way by the views or work of others. So when people latch onto the effect that Miles Davis had on trumpeter Wallace Roney, it's fair to ask, “so what?" Roney hung with Miles during his formative years, and ...


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