"Little Sunflower" recording- Corey A. Wallace (trb), Erek Kapusta (p), James Maguire (b), Greg Garcia (d)
"Red Sea Rising" and "Don't Mention It" recordings - The Sextet - Greg Johnson (ts), Steven Thomas (tpt), Corey A. Wallace (trb), George Malek (g), Ron Lange (b), and Kevin Lowe/compser (d)
"Bebop Tune" recording - Corey A. Wallace (student) and Jim McFalls (professor), grad school lesson on September 30, 2008 with Volume 3 Aebersold, "Bebop Tune"
Influences
No particular order...JJ Johnson, Slide Hampton, Curtis Fuller, Frank Rosolino, Carl Fontana, Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Wynton Marsalis, Vincent Gardner, Wycliffe Gordon, Andre Hayward, Conrad Herwig, Cannonball Adderly, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bille Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Fats Waller, Jim McFalls, Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Wes "Warmdaddy" Anderson, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Rufus Reed, George Clinton, Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Pee Wee Russell, old school R&B musicians and singers, Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky, Tchiakovsky, Percy Grainger, Clifton Williams, Tommy Pederson, Christian Lindberg, Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, David Baker, Jamey Aebersold, Don Braden, Erik Alexander, Jim Rotundi, Steve Davis, Jackie McClean, Woody Shaw, Steve Turre, Booty Wood, Trick Sam Nanton, Bubber Miley, Cat Anderson, John Fedchock, Conrad Herwig, Bobby Shew, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Heath, Whit Williams, Dan Yoder, Mark Lusk...
This list offers no insight to the amount of musicians that I deem influential...Myspace asks of me the impossible task. If everything I've heard since I could remember is my influence, there is no way I could list it here. Jazz, it's leaders, followers, fans, and obsessors influence me. I barely skimmed the tip of the iceberg in Jazz, and have yet to mention more than a few names from other genres of music or in other aspects of life...Everyone has a voice and something to say...that's the great thing about music. The great thing about JAZZ is the communication of feelings and swing: it's beautiful.
My family, friends, creative musicians, people, history, poetry, other people's words and thoughts, books, perspectives, life, experiences-good and bad.
Sounds Like
my experiences mixed with my personality and who I've become and who I've yet to become. Soul music.
Hey, my name is Corey A. Wallace and I am a musician. I just graduated from Penn State University with a degree in trombone performance a couple months ago and am heading to grad school next year to study jazz extensively. I hail from Baltimore City (northeast) and have been stuck in State College, PA for the past five years, but I've made it work for me. That's all you can do when you find out things aren't as you thought they would be. I just finished a gig at Hersheypark, an amusement park in Hershey, PA; I played in a '70s funk and R&B band that cranked out tunes from bands like Tower of Power, Earth, Wind and Fire, and the legendary Stevie Wonder. It was pretty killin'...
I've had the pleasure to perform with Vincent Gardner, Jim McFalls, Dick Oates, Marko Marcinko, Ronnie Burrage, Steve Rudolph, Dwayne Dolphin, John Fedchock, Chris Vadala, Walt Weiskopf, Dave Stambler, Joshua Davis, Donald Byrd, Lynn Seaton, Tyrone Wheeler, Dan Yoder, Craig Alston, Freddie Dunn, Whit Williams, and many more...It has been a blessing to have shared the stage with these great people and I would again in a heartbeat. They have shared much with me about the music and life and I appreciate them continuing the jazz tradition.
Not a stranger to the other side of the horn, I have studied the repertoire of the trombone, technique and continue to do so. I've had two recitals while at Penn State, and have played on countless others. I was honored to perform at Carnegie Hall with the National Wind Ensemble, as co-Principal Trombonist, in 2005 for the 9th Annual National Wind Ensemble Concert in New York. With the Penn State Trombone Choir, I have performed at the Annual Fruhling Posaunen event (Trombone Day for Eastman, Ithaca, and Penn State), 2006 Eastern Trombone Workshop, 2007 and 2008 Pennsylvania Music Educators Conventions, and many other places I can't remember. I'll list them as my memory permits, haha
Right now, I'm in the graduate jazz studies program at Towson University in Baltimore, MD. I'm back home, doing what I can to progress in the tradition of Jazz and in life. I'm studying with Jim McFalls (trombone, 17 years with the Jazz Ambassadors) and a bit with Dave Ballou (trumpet), both very established and KILLIN' jazz musicians. I'm tryin to be killin' in my own right, so I just shed a lot...from time to time, I'll put excerpts of my lessons up. I've also been given the opportunity to run the jazz program at the Baltimore School for the Arts, I dig it man...to have kids wanting to learn about the tradition and culture I love?? You can't ask to do anything else...other opportunities have opened up for me but I'll update you on those later!
Here's a vid of Jim KILLIN' A Night in Tunisia...
I'll write some more later on...sorry if you're reading this while I'm constructing it! haha However you always could send me a note or hit my wall...PEace and Keep Swingin'...
Hey Corey....I remember you!?!?! ...hope things are going well...we may be having jams on Thursdays again...keep looking at the web site...come by anytime ...best, S
........u now im a multitalented cat man....makin it happen,about 2 go 2 the next level I think its about time,keep hittin it with McFalls man you can be a beast if thats what u want 2 do!peace!
Hey man, many thanks! I'm pretty stoked about it =) That said, I'll be glad when it's over, win or lose, just because I'm sick of "All The Things You Are" lol Great song but I've had enough of it! How you doing man? School still treatin' ya well?
Hi Corey! Things are ok here; last semester of school... finally! gonna try and squeeze in a jazz class or 2. Sheddin is alright; some things are happening and some aren't; that's how it always is I guess. How about u? Hope u r doing well too! how's grad school?
I did a semester at Conservatorium van Amsterdam on an exchange program, so I got to spend a good amount of time there. Thats great that your teaching, you sound great as always! Yeah, I'm trying to sell the raw Bach 12 bell I have had for years, and a Conn 48H from 1958, I'm playing on a mid 60's King 3B (isn't that what you play on?), but I'll part with it if I can find something with a better slide and a little more open feel. Give McFalls my regards if you can, last time I saw him was at the Jazz Improv Con in NYC, he was so killin with the Capitol Bones.
I'm alright. Just got back from Amsterdam, and I'm about to go to St. Thomas, which is all good, but I really can't wait to get back to New York, it's been at least 6 months. How are you? Where are residing now?
whats good brah...all is well here...makin more music....tryin 2 put 2gether a group 4 giggin'......its time!!just relaxin though..doin a lot of thinking!!whats the haps over that way!
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