Wallace Roney

A forward-thinking, post-bop trumpeter, Wallace Roney first emerged in the late '80s as a gifted soloist with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Tony Williams. Blessed with a warm, often plaintive tone and lithe improvisational style, Roney was often regarded as the heir to the modal legacy of Miles Davis, though his playing also evinced the influence of trumpeters like Clifford Brown and Woody Shaw. While many of his albums, like 1989's The Standard Bearer and 1997's The Village, displayed his talent for swinging and harmonically advanced acoustic jazz, others, like 2000's No R...