Understanding (Wallace Roney album)

Understanding is an album by trumpeter/composer Wallace Roney which was recorded in 2012 and released on the HighNote label the following year.[1]

Understanding
Studio album by
Wallace Roney
ReleasedApril 23, 2013
RecordedJune 18 & July 5, 2012
VenueSamurai Hotel Recording Studio, Astoria, New York
GenreJazz
Length61:33
LabelHighNote
HCD 7235
ProducerWallace Roney
Wallace Roney chronology
Home
(2012)		 Understanding
(2013)		 A Place in Time
(2016)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Financial Times[3]

Allmusic's Matt Collar said "Understanding, is an expansive, often swinging work that finds the trumpeter digging even deeper into the straight-ahead if no less adventurous sound of his recent releases. These are bluesy, harmonically layered modal songs that bring to mind such touchstones as '70s Woody Shaw and late-'60s Miles Davis".[2] Financial Times reviewer, Mike Hobart, stated "The ex-Miles Davis understudy confirms he is now something of an elder statesman with this sextet recording featuring young unknowns who are full of promise".[3] In JazzTimes, Michael J. West noted "Roney was a dyed-in-the-wool Young Lion. Understanding, a sextet session and his first all-acoustic album in over a decade, places him back in that context, with (mostly) wondrous results ... Technical virtuosity, dense harmony and zealous swing abound. At its best, melody abounds too".[4]

Track listing
  1. "Understanding" (Roy Brooks) – 6:56
  2. "Is That So?" (Duke Pearson) – 5:47
  3. "Search for Peace" (McCoy Tyner) – 8:07
  4. "Gaslight" (Pearson) – 6:51
  5. "Red Lantern" (Arnold Lee) – 7:43
  6. "Kotra" (Ben Solomon) – 7:08 Amazon
  7. "Combustible" (Wallace Roney) – 8:21
  8. "You Taught My Heart to Sing" (Tyner) – 8:01

Personnel
  • Wallace Roney – trumpet
  • Arnold Lee – alto saxophone (tracks 2-7)
  • Ben Solomon – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2 & 4-8)
  • Victor Gould (tracks 2, 3 & 5-8), Eden Ladin (tracks 1 & 4) – piano
  • Daryl Johns – bass
  • Kush Abadey – drums

References
  1. Jazz Depot: HighNote discography accessed April 28, 2020
  2. Collar, Matt. Wallace Roney: Understanding – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  3. Hobart, M. Financial Time Review, May 1, 2010, accessed April 28, 2020
  4. West, M. J. JazzTimes Review, accessed April 28, 2020
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