medjuck Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Saw Wallace Roney with a quintet at a small club here in Santa Barbara. I hadn't heard him except on the cd and Lazer disc of his apperance with Miles at Montreux. I'd heard that the had a new "electric" cd out but he showed up with an acoustic group and they blew the roof off the place. Group sounded a bit like the 2nd Miles quintet but with more of a blues feel. Lot's of shifting rhythms, pedal points and even stop-times. A great drummer named Eric Allen and equally terrific bass player who I think was Matt Garrison. They were selling the new cd at the club so I got a copy. It has Adam Holzman on Fender Rhodes and DJ Logic on some cuts. So far I'm a little disappointed in the cd but that may ust be becaseu I was so impressed by the live acoustic performance. Ayone else hearad this group live? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Not this particular lineup but I did see Roney and Holzman do a tribute concert for Miles about 5 years ago. That band had Bennie Maupin, Buster Williams and Lenny White in it. Patrice Rushen also came in on keyboards for some of the numbers. Hugely enjoyable evening, quite a lot of Miles's electric material was covered but they also did some 50s/60s acoustic classics too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take5 Posted October 8, 2004 Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 I saw Wallace with his little brother playing sax and Lenny White (forgot who else was in it) in Boston. It was interesting... they started with a long fusion number, then went into some bop. All in all enjoyable, if unremarkable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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