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 Am�rica. 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.
