Wallace Roney Quintet

Wallace Roney | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 1996)
• Original Release Date: January 30, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002MYG
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #208,631 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Spyra

2. Astral Radium

3. G.D.D.

4. Night and Day

5. Nightrance

6. Ultra-Axis

7. Clowns

8. High Stakes

9. Geri

10. Northern Lights

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars further explorations of davis/shorter etc concepts, October 20, 2004

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A. Heretik "hugo" (East Europe) - See all my reviews
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Well, how you ll like this music depends on what you expect. Wallace Roney is known for his lyrical trumpet playing, similar sounding to Miles Davis lyrical trumpet playing. You find this here also, but that s not reason I gave it 5 stars. Listening to this disc I hear further exploration of 60' concept of Davis, Shorter, Hancock, Williams, Carter (played under Miles Davis Quintet) - the albums like Miles Smiles, Neffertiti, Sorcerer etc. The concept that was abandoned for many years (though sometimes played by VSOP Quintet).
Here it is back and explorated further - the polyrhytmic playing, strange, cool, amazing melodies, modal to "free" harmonies etc. All players in this Quintet contribute to this.
Although it doesnt sound "hot", there is a lot of emotions there - the interesting formal concept combined with interesting improvisations and creative playing as well. Just listen to songs that are available on Amazon, and you will know.
So, it is almost sure that this is not going to be Wallace Roney s best selling album for people who like to listen deeper and for those who liked 60 s Miles Davis Quintet highly recommended.
Being aware of situation in music industry I thank Wallace Roney for the courage.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, September 5, 2011

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James Metz - See all my reviews
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Walace Roney is an excellent musician; sounds a great deal like his mentor, Miles Davis, but has developed his own ideas of improvization.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent., January 9, 2010

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R. Bland - See all my reviews
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I got this CD when it was first released and realized its intensity and Mile's like sound . I was too young really to appreciate how technically challenging it is even if you study Miles. It's a good listen but not causual music. I sold it years back and now have it again. I hope Roney is still growing like Miles who never stopped with the 50-60's sound.