Music
June, 1980
Seldom have we heard a debut album like Frank Walton's Reality (Delmark). A trumpeter with prodigious technique and ideas to match--something like a combination of Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis--Walton has also managed to assemble a sextet that's reminiscent of Miles's great combos of the past, without being the least bit imitative. The material swings hard and cuts deep; Walton and Company deliver it with conviction. It sounds, to us, like the birth of a legend.•The most important opera relea...
