Understanding (Wallace Roney album)

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Understanding
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Studio album by
Wallace Roney
ReleasedApril 23, 2013
RecordedJune 18 & July 5, 2012
VenueSamurai Hotel Recording Studio, Astoria, New York
Genre Jazz
Length61:33
Label HighNote
HCD 7235
Producer Wallace Roney
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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]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Financial Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [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

  1. "Understanding" (Roy Brooks) – 6:56
  2. "Is That So?" (Duke Pearson) – 5:47
  3. "Search for Peace" (McCoy Tyner) – 8:07
  4. "Gaslight" (Pearson) – 6:51
  5. "Red Lantern" (Arnold Lee) – 7:43
  6. "Kotra" (Ben Solomon) – 7:08
  7. "Combustible" (Wallace Roney) – 8:21
  8. "You Taught My Heart to Sing" (Tyner) – 8:01

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Jazz Depot: HighNote discography accessed April 28, 2020
  2. 1 2 Collar, Matt. Wallace Roney: Understanding – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Hobart, M. Financial Times Review, May 1, 2010, accessed April 28, 2020
  4. ↑ West, M. J. JazzTimes Review, accessed April 28, 2020
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