Antoine Roney Trio-Live at Half Note Jazz Club Athens (25 01 2013)

Antoine Roney (born April 1, 1963, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American tenor and saxophonist, brother to trumpeter Wallace Roney.[1] His grandfather, Roosevelt Sherman played guitar, tuba, trumpet and played in the Frankie Fairfax Band in the 1930s. Growing up surrounded by jazz music, the Roney brothers were influenced by Horace Silver, Art Blakey Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Willy Bobo and Mongo Santamaria. Antoine graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts of the D.C. Public Schools and attended college at the Hartt School of Music of the University of Hartford. Throughout the 1980s/1990s he worked with Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Clifford Jordan, Ted Curson, John Patton, Rashied Ali, Arthur Taylor, Jesse Davis, Ravi Coltrane, Michael Carvin, Geri Allen, Chick Corea and Elvin Jones, and has released five albums as a leader.