Village (album)

Village is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney, recorded in late 1996 and released on the Warner Bros. label the following year.

Roney says that he wanted to "incorporate African rhythms with a Nefertiti approach" on the whole CD, but Nefertiti easily overwhelms, even obliterates, the African element up until track six ... the music becomes more interesting, sometimes following the direction of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi Sextet ... by now, the boo birds have been out again accusing Roney of being a Miles imitator.

[3] In The Washington Post, Geoffrey Himes wrote that "on Village, drummer Lenny White and bassist Clarence Seay keep prodding and provoking the soloists by inserting abrupt rolls, loud bursts, pauses and even time changes into the mix.

The leader's insistence that his musicians constantly challenge each other rhythmically and harmonically is quite African in its concept and explains not only the album's title but its vibrant sense of conflict and resolution".

[4] On All About Jazz, Rick Bruner said, "There are many rewards awaiting listeners in the latest offering from trumpeter Wallace Roney.