No Room for Argument [Import]

Wallace Roney | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal/Polygram
• ASIN: B00005HO3G
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,834,840 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. No Room For Argument

2. Homage & Acknowledgement

3. Straight Or Nothing

4. Metropolis

5. Christina

6. New Being

7. Psygroove

8. He Who Knows

9. Dmsr

10. Midnight Blue

11. Portia

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "spiritual high - pure talent", November 3, 2000

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J. Lovins "Mr. Jim" (Missouri-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Room for Argument (Audio CD)

Stretch Records presents a cast of modern jazz stalwarts - Steven Hall (tenor & soprano sax & bass clarinet), Antoine Roney (tenor & soprano sax & bass clarinet), Geri Allen (piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano. synthesizer), Adam Holzman (Wurlitzer electric piano, organ, mini-moog, synthesizers), Buster Williams (bass), Lenny White (drums), Val "Gelder" Jeanty (samples & electronica) - join Wallace Roney in a recording that leaves "No Room For Argument". It's simply one of his most creative and mesmerizing outings to date.

Wallace Roney merges modern, creative jazz improvisation with infectious, relentless grooves, peppered with almost subliminal yet highly-charged samples and electronica...always on the cutting edge.

Herbie Hancock once said - "I think music is supposed to make you high, give you an experience so that you can transport yourself from wherever you are, more conscious of you inner consciousness"...and Satchmo was quoted - "I'm not doing anything, it doesn't need an explanation. I'm reacting to what's been done and what's supposed to be happening today, everything you've ever heard, all that is condensed, we play body "Body and Soul" in two bars, I wanted to play songs that have a definite beginning and an ending".

Well, this CD is that, and then some...might not be your cup of tea, but try some...you may just like it!

Total Time: 71:42 on 10 Tracks...Stretch Records 9033...(2000)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Roney goes "Out there"!, August 13, 2001

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Drez "Drez" (MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Room for Argument (Audio CD)

With this release, Wallace seperates himself further from his contemporary trumpeters. "No Room for Argument" is an excellent, multi-faceted, gem. The added layers of sound and voice float in and out of the slightly subdued (except track 9), instrumental virtuosity. It all blends into a very modern sound. As a Trumpeter/leader/composer, Mr. Roney is definitely headed "Out there"! Long live the Committee.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Cut Is Strong, August 4, 2009

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Karl W. Nehring (Ostrander, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Room for Argument (Audio CD)

There have been some excellent recordings led by trumpeters over the last year or two, but this new release from Wallace Roney trumps them all: this was THE jazz recording of 2000! Accompanying Roney are Steve Hall and Antoine Roney on tenor sax, soprano sax, and bass clarinet; Geri Allen and Adam Holzman on various keyboards and synthesizers; Buster Williams on bass; Lenny White on drums; and Val "Gelder" Jeanty providing samples. In the liner notes, Roney talks about paying tribute to the past and looking to the future, and he does a fine job of both.

The CD opens with his strong horn playing on the title cut, then comes one of the most inspired arrangements of jazz that I have ever heard, "Homage and Acknowledgement (A Love Supreme/Filles de Kilimanjaro)," which is nothing short of drop-dead amazing. On "Christina," Roney shows that he has a way with a ballad, and then on "NeuBeings," and it's suddenly Bitches Brew in the 21st Century, a groove that grows even deeper on the next cut, "Cygroove." Whew! The CD ends with some tasty, straightforward acoustic jazz on the cut, "Midnight Blue." I have not mentioned every cut, but believe me, every cut is strong, and so is the engineering. As I said at the outset, this was THE jazz recording of 2000, and I still recommend it highly in 2009.