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...Jarrett's recent tribute to Miles Davis, Bye Bye Blackbird, Tiger Okoshi's homage to Louis Armstrong, Echoes of a Note, and now, this scorching new set that features four musicians who played with Miles and one who didn't, but admires him anyway. This young trumpet player, Wallace Roney, plays with startling clarity and supreme confidence...
...Indeed, Roney is the highlight of this album. From his patient solo during the hyperspeed album opener, "So What," to his uncanny imitation of Miles himself on "All Blues" (harmon mute and all) Roney clearly is in his element. In part, Roney sounds so good because his open sound leaves plenty of room for the rhythm section to strut its stuff; pianist Hancock, bassist Carter and drummer Williams have never sounded better, tight as all hell and at the same time creatively lyrical. Carter's dazzling clarity, Hancock's chord driven, percussive flair, and Williams' inventive and at the same...
Regatta Bar. The Charles Hotel, Harvard Square, Cambridge, 937-4020. The John Abercrombie Trio on Thursday, March 17 and Friday, March 18. The Geri Allen/Wallace Roney Quartet on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20. The New Black Eagle Jazz Band with Butch Thompson at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March...
Dogged by respiratory problems, Davis' once assertive, quicksilver trumpet tone flickers and flares like an oxygen-starved flame. On Miles Ahead he sits out long passages, but with trumpeter Wallace Roney backing him up, Davis' pride and defiance burn through as he suddenly leaps into the final chorus, bobbing atop the careening rhythm with a tone that begins as a crackle and winds up pure and delicate as crystal. On the slow-building Solea, he struggles to find himself, then, catching his wind, lets fly a cascade of notes that arc and shimmer with the same brassy authority he wielded...
RE91 Brod ALLEN (6-3.226.SR) RT 95 Mike SEARS (6-3.235.SR) NG 46 Rob ULSES (6-2.225.SR) LT 93 Jim JENNINGS (6-3.240.SR) LE 98 Kurt GUTIERREZ (6-2.205.JR) LB 54 John RONEY (6-1.225.SR) LB 55 Jim GENTILE (6-1.225.SR) CB 18 Eric GRIFFIN (6-0.188.SR) CB 37 Kerrut McKELVY (5-9.184.SR) SS 19 Bob SILVER (5-9.192.SR) FS 26 Mike TEASE (5.11.182.SO...