''Seth Air'' is the fifth album by American jazz trumpeter

Wallace Roney Wallace Roney (May 25, 1960 – March 31, 2020) was an American jazz ( hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter. He has won 1 Grammy award and has two nominations. Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis fr ...

which was recorded in 1991 and released on the

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Reception

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review by Scott Yanow stated, "Trumpeter Wallace Roney, 32 at the time of this recording, has yet to escape from the shadow of

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...

. However he is one of the stronger brassmen in jazz of the 1990s and plays quite well on this set ... The music is straightahead but occasionally as unpredictable as the repertoire".

Track listing

All compositions by Antoine Roney except where noted # "Melchizedek" − 7:30 # "A Breath of Seth Air" − 6:58 # "Black People Suffering" − 6:35 # "28, Rue Pigalle" − 5:47 # "Lost" (Jacky Terrasson) − 3:48 # "

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" ( Jule Styne,

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) − 8:26 # "Gone" (

George Gershwin George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ' ...

, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) − 6:28 # "

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" ( Burt Bacharach,

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) − 6:47

Personnel

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

Antoine Roney Antoine Roney (born April 1, 1963, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American tenor saxophonist, brother to trumpeter Wallace Roney.Allmusic profile/ref> He attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and the Hartt School of Music of the Univer ...

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tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

Jacky Terrasson Jacky Terrasson (born November 27, 1965) is a French jazz pianist and composer. Background Terrasson's mother is African-American from Georgia, and his father is French. From his parents he heard classical music as a child. He began piano lesson ...

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− bass *Eric Allen − drums

References

{{Authority control 1991 albums Wallace Roney albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Muse Records albums