Understanding (Wallace Roney album)
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| Understanding | ||||
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| Released | April 23, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | June 18 & July 5, 2012 | |||
| Venue | Samurai Hotel, Astoria, New York | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 61:33 | |||
| Label | HighNote HCD 7235 | |||
| Producer | Wallace Roney | |||
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Understanding is an album by trumpeter/composer Wallace Roney, recorded in 2012 and released on the HighNote label the following year.[1]
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| Source | Rating |
| 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]
