Understanding (Wallace Roney album)
| Understanding | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 23, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | June 18 & July 5, 2012 | |||
| Venue | Samurai Hotel Recording Studio, Astoria, New York | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 61:33 | |||
| Label | HighNote HCD 7235 | |||
| Producer | Wallace Roney | |||
| Wallace Roney chronology | ||||
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Understanding is an album by trumpeter/composer Wallace Roney, recorded in 2012 and released on the HighNote label the following year.[1]
Reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Financial Times | [3] |
AllMusic's Matt Collar said "Understanding, is an expansive, often swinging work that finds the trumpeter digging even deeper into the straight-ahead if no less adventurous sound of his recent releases. These are bluesy, harmonically layered modal songs that bring to mind such touchstones as '70s Woody Shaw and late-'60s Miles Davis".[2] Financial Times reviewer Mike Hobart stated, "The ex-Miles Davis understudy confirms he is now something of an elder statesman with this sextet recording featuring young unknowns who are full of promise".[3] In JazzTimes, Michael J. West noted "Roney was a dyed-in-the-wool Young Lion. Understanding, a sextet session and his first all-acoustic album in over a decade, places him back in that context, with (mostly) wondrous results ... Technical virtuosity, dense harmony and zealous swing abound. At its best, melody abounds too".[4]
Track listing
[edit]- "Understanding" (Roy Brooks) – 6:56
- "Is That So?" (Duke Pearson) – 5:47
- "Search for Peace" (McCoy Tyner) – 8:07
- "Gaslight" (Pearson) – 6:51
- "Red Lantern" (Arnold Lee) – 7:43
- "Kotra" (Ben Solomon) – 7:08
- "Combustible" (Wallace Roney) – 8:21
- "You Taught My Heart to Sing" (Tyner) – 8:01
Personnel
[edit]- Wallace Roney – trumpet
- Arnold Lee – alto saxophone (tracks 2-7)
- Ben Solomon – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2 & 4-8)
- Victor Gould (tracks 2, 3 & 5-8), Eden Ladin (tracks 1 & 4) – piano
- Daryl Johns – bass
- Kush Abadey – drums
References
[edit]- ^ Jazz Depot: HighNote discography accessed April 28, 2020
- ^ a b Collar, Matt. Wallace Roney: Understanding – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- ^ a b Hobart, M. Financial Times Review, May 1, 2010, accessed April 28, 2020
- ^ West, M. J. JazzTimes Review, accessed April 28, 2020