Mistérios

Mistérios is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney, recorded in 1994 and released on the Warner Bros. label.

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".

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".

Track listing

 * 1) "Meu Menino" (Danilo Caymmi, Ana Terra) – 6:15
 * 2) "In Her Family" (Pat Metheny) – 4:47
 * 3) "Michelle" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 6:31
 * 4) "Cafe" (Egberto Gismonti) – 6:28
 * 5) "Mistérios" (Joyce, Mauricio Maestro) – 4:52
 * 6) "Last to Know" (Metheny) – 6:47
 * 7) "Memoria e Fado" (Gismonti) – 5:16
 * 8) "71+" (Jaco Pastorius) – 6:51
 * 9) "Muerte" (Astor Piazzolla) – 5:48
 * 10) "I Will Always Love You" (Dolly Parton) – 5:19

Personnel

 * Wallace Roney − trumpet, arranger
 * Gil Goldstein – arranger, conductor, keyboards
 * Ravi Coltrane (track 9), Antoine Roney (tracks 4, 6 & 8) − tenor saxophone
 * Geri Allen − piano, arranger
 * Clarence Seay − double bass
 * Eric Allen − drums
 * Steve Berrios, Steve Thornton, Valtinho Anastacio – percussion
 * 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