Wallace Roney: Fulfilling the Promise
Wallace Roney: Fulfilling the Promise
Trumpeter Wallace Roney has been working in jazz for over thirty years. He made his recording debut at age fourteen and played in the bands of Tony Williams, Art Blakey, David Murray and Herbie Hancock—just to name a few. A bandleader on his own for many years, Roney has dazzling chops and has composed some classic songs. He’s never led a bad group, and when I saw him at Chicago’s Green Mill in late August, the band was dazzling—powerful but supple, densely layered but capable of immediate transition.