Mistérios is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney, recorded in 1994 and released on the Warner Bros. label.Wallace Roney: Music accessed April 2, 2020
Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Trumpeter Wallace Roney avoids the standard repertoire altogether on this CD, ... but, try as hard as he may, he still sounds like Miles Davis every time he hits a long tone or plays a doubletime passage. Backed by a small orchestra that mostly interprets Gil Goldstein arrangements, Roney is the main soloist throughout this interesting ballad-dominated set".
In The Washington Post, Geoffrey Himes wrote: "Not only was this recording supervised by Davis's old producer, Teo Macero, but it features Evans-like orchestral arrangements by Gil Goldstein, who had transcribed and adapted Evans's charts for Miles Davis & Quincy Jones Live at Montreux ... Because Roney emphasizes feeling over technique, Misterios has the chance to connect with a non-jazz audience as few acoustic jazz albums have since Davis's heyday".Himes, G,. Wallace Roney: Miles Ahead of the Pack, The Washington Post, August 7, 1994, accessed April 2, 2020
In JazzTimes, David R. Adler noted: "Misterios, his debut for the label, is in many respects a marvelous piece of work—with jazz ensemble and strings interpreting works by Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Egberto Gismonti and, bizarrely enough, Dolly Parton. The label wanted a cover of a Grammy-winning song, and Roney averted a potential disaster, turning “I Will Always Love You,” the Parton-penned Whitney Houston hit, into a thing of enigmatic beauty, an unabashed valentine to his departed friend and mentor, Miles Davis".Adler, D. R. Wallace Roney: The Man with the Golden Horn, JazzTimes, accessed April 2, 2020
Track listing "Meu Menino" (Danilo Caymmi, Ana Terra) – 6:15 "In Her Family" (Pat Metheny) – 4:47 "Michelle" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 6:31 "Cafe" (Egberto Gismonti) – 6:28 "Mistérios" (Joyce, Mauricio Maestro) – 4:52 "Last to Know" (Metheny) – 6:47 "Memoria e Fado" (Gismonti) – 5:16 "71+" (Jaco Pastorius) – 6:51 "Muerte" (Astor Piazzolla) – 5:48 "I Will Always Love You" (Dolly Parton) – 5:19
Personnel Wallace Roney – trumpet, arranger Gil Goldstein – conductor, keyboards, arranger Geri Allen – piano, arranger Clarence Seay – double bass Eric Allen – drums Steve Berrios – percussion Steve Thornton – percussion Valtinho Anastacio – percussion Antoine Roney – tenor saxophone (tracks 4, 6, 8) Ravi Coltrane – tenor saxophone (track 9) Orchestra: Eric Wyrick (concertmaster), Liang-Ping How, Sandra Park – violin Louise Schulman, Maureen Gallagher – viola Eugene J. Moye Jr., Richard Locker – cello Andrew Sterman, Chris Hunter, Harvey Estrin, Lawrence Feldman, Robert Steen – flute, recorder
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