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After leading his Latin Jazz Quintet on six GRAMMY-nominated albums, Wayne Wallace broke with tradition in 2016 to co-lead a chamber orchestra - horns, winds, an double string quartet, and an array of vocalists - on the critically adored Canto América. For the new Rhythm of Invention, he set himself a potentially even more ambitious goal of combining these two approaches. "I wanted to come up with way of coherently mixing the quintet with the brass and strings from Canto," he explains. "I wanted to have the energy of that record without repeating it." The result is a dazzling set of new compositions and old standards, on which Wallace uses the added resources to highlight the strengths of his core conjunto.

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Afro-Cuban jazz that shakes, quakes and practically immolates.... Intercambio shows Wallace's Grammy-nominated unit extending the music originated by master Eddie Palmieri with beautiful reverence and serious fire. The group's fifth release, Intercambio is state-of-the-art Latin jazz.

     —Ken Micallef, DownBeat

Wayne Wallace is a fine trombonist but a better bandleader, and an excellent conceptualist... the end, the head, the heart and the feet all get nourished on Intercambio.... ingenious.

     —Britt Robson, Jazz Times

Wayne Wallace is simply one of the most gifted trombonists playing today.... With smart and elegant harmonizing and inexpressibly spot-on polyrhythms, each song--whether an original or a reinvented one by another jazz great--is a masterpiece in its own right...

     —Raul da Gama, Latin Jazz Network

Wallace's arrangements, populated with tightly synched, beefy horn charts and sturdy Latin percussion, are inspired...

     —Jeff Tamarkin, Jazz Times