OUT TODAY! Wallace Roney Leads an Inspiring Group of Contemporary Jazz Trailblazers on ‘Blue Dawn-Blue Nights’

August 30, 2019
OUT TODAY! Wallace Roney Leads an Inspiring Group of Contemporary Jazz Trailblazers on ‘Blue Dawn-Blue Nights’

HighNote Records is proud to release Blue Dawn – Blue Nights, the new album from stalwart jazz trumpet artist/ bandleader  Wallace Roney. On his twenty-second recording as a leader, the Philadelphia-born musician is thrilled to be leading his band with the next generation jazz innovators: saxophonist Emilio Modeste, pianist Oscar Williams II, bassist Paul Cuffari, and his fifteen year old nephew, drummer Kojo Odu Roney. On Blue … Read More

REVIEW: Jazziz Reviews Jeff Coffin/Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live!”

June 3, 2019
REVIEW: Jazziz Reviews Jeff Coffin/Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live!”

Philip Booth, Jazziz “I didn’t think much of it,” David Liebman said about On the Corner, the funk-driven 1972 Miles Davis  album on which the saxophonist appeared. Initially dismissed as one of the trumpeter’s lesser works, the Teo Macero-produced release’s reputation has steadily been rehabbed, a process that accelerated with 2007’s six-CD box set documenting the … Read More

REVIEW: JazzTimes Reviews Jeff Coffin & Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live! The Music of Miles Davis!

April 8, 2019
REVIEW: JazzTimes Reviews Jeff Coffin & Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live! The Music of Miles Davis!

Bill Meredith, JazzTimes Of the many debate-prompting releases from Miles Davis’ shape-shifting career, On the Corner (1972) may top the list. The trumpeter admitted the music was influenced by funk artists like James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone, the result being an album rooted more in rhythm than electric studio predecessors like Bitches Brew or Jack Johnson. The … Read More