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, a double string quartet, and an array of vocalists – on the critically adored ‘Canto América’ (2016). For ‘The 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’.
