Verses (album)

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Verses
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Studio album by
Wallace Roney
Released1987
RecordedFebruary 19, 1987
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length45:30
Label Muse
MR 5335
Producer Michael Cuscuna, Tony Williams
Wallace Roney chronology
Verses
(1987)		 Intuition
(1988)

Verses is the debut album by American jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney which was recorded in 1987 and released on the Muse label. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated, "The music is essentially advanced hard bop, with Roney as usual often sounding a bit tonewise like his hero Miles Davis". [4]

Track listing

  1. "Float" (Cindy Blackman) − 5:43
  2. "Verses" (Wallace Roney) − 9:37
  3. "Blue in Green" (Bill Evans) − 5:39
  4. "Topaz" (Blackman) − 5:37
  5. "Lawra" (Tony Williams) − 6:36
  6. "Slaves" (Roney) − 12:18

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Muse Records listing accessed February 9, 2018
  2. ↑ Wallace Roney: Music accessed February 9, 2018
  3. ↑ Jazzlists: Muse LP series discography: 5300 to 5349 accessed February 9, 2018
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Verses – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 9, 2018.
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