Word: roney
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That is why Armstrong remains a deep force in our American expression. Not only do we hear him in those trumpet players who represent the present renaissance in jazz--Wynton Marsalis, Wallace Roney, Terence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton--we can also detect his influence in certain rhythms that sweep from country-and-western music all the way over to the chanted doggerel...
...name for themselves are often like a teenager who's just got his driver's license. They love speed for its own sake, blowing fusillades of notes that show dazzling enthusiasm but no sense of judgment. Leading his own septet on his fine new album Misterios (Warner Bros.), Wallace Roney proves an exception to the rule. His amber tone and patient, considered phrasing echo the mature works of Miles Davis...
Misterios marks the coming of age of a musician who endured his share of lean times. A dozen years ago, Roney, then 22, sold nearly everything he owned -- "my books, my records, my jacket," he says -- to leave Boston for New % York City, the world's jazz oasis. But when he arrived, it was more like a desert. He couldn't afford the $500 to buy his own horn. "There weren't too many gigs coming my way," he remembers. To practice, he had to borrow an old instrument a friend was using to hold flowers. At night he slept...
After a year, Roney finally had some luck. He played at a tribute to Davis, the trumpet's reigning genius, and the honoree was in the wings that night. He was impressed. "He asked me what kind of trumpet I had," Roney recalls, "and I told him none. So he gave...
...Roney's real breakthrough, though, didn't come until 1991, when he played alongside the ailing Davis onstage at Montreux, Switzerland. Davis was too weak to play entire solos, so Roney would finish them for him. Davis died a few months later, and Roney's performance became legendary. Misterios, Davis- like in its jazz-pop blend, is dedicated to the legend. "He taught me to treat every note like a precious emotion," says Roney. Listening to Misterios, you know he learned his lessons well...