Wallace Roney: If Only for One Night | CD review

(High Note)As the excellent Village Voice columnist Francis Davis remarks in the insert, trumpeter Wallace Roney's rare secret – despite all his Miles Davis connections, personal and musical – lies in "confronting (Miles's) massive influence whole". Roney (below) and his fine young band would have played Ronnie Scott's this week but for volcanic intervention, and on the evidence of this live recording from New York's Iridium club, the reschedule will be well worth the wait. Plenty ...

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