If Only For One Night

The inventive and adventurous open-minded approach of Wallace Roney's first three HighNote releases, (Prototype HCD 7116, Mystikal HCD 7145 & Jazz HCD 7174) is firmly maintained on IF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT. Here Roney has succeeded in taking all of his influences and forging them into a coherent whole which is somehow more than the sum of its parts. There are glimmers of bebop, postbop, Trane, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report-ish funk & fusion, hip-hop and, of course, Miles Davis, but yet the music always sound freshly-wrought and never derivative. Recorded live at New York's famed jazz club the Iridium.