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Home of trombonist/artist Corey A. Wallace! Find performance pics and vids here, IG, and my website! Still growing. Confident in what I know. I'm about the MUSIC.
On a relentless pursuit to know more. Soul touching music.
04/23/2026
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Dropped in to one of NYCs newest jazz clubs yesterday - JazzCultural on 46th between 8th and 9th!
I have a longstanding and ongoing love for Smalls Jazz Club, as I’ve performed there hundreds of times (including earlier this week), hung there, fellowshiped there, met my fav people, musicians, actors, vocalists, and met many friends who are now family there - it’s home to me.
Owner Spike Wilner extended the community to the West Village’s Mezzrow quite a few years ago, and has done it again, this time in midtown Times Square with the opening of JazzCultural!!
The location is extremely familiar, formerly Swing 46, swing era dance club and music venue, home to many big bands and groups!
A very special location - my first gigs in NYC close to 15 years ago were at this very spot! A somewhat sentimental moment for me and many other musicians, but I have no doubt that JazzCultural will take the space and memories to new heights!
Congrats, Spike, the NYC music community, and visiting musicians and music lovers! 🙌🏽🙌🏽
It’s a beautiful room and sounds phenomenal!
Tonight!! Let’s goooo!!
Yesterday I had the pleasure of leading a quartet of ridiculous cats/colleagues/friends as we celebrated Social Worker Appreciation Month at Northside Center for Child Development!
Very fortunate to work alongside Mariana Yousef in appreciation of her social worker team and solidifying the opportunity for us to perform for some good, music loving folks!
Here is a moment from Wayne Shorter’s “Yes Or No”
Fima Chupakhin/keyboard
Barry Stephenson/bass
Jay Sawyer/drums
Corey Wallace/trombone
Footage from Big Ears Music Festival w/ Steven Bernstein & Millennial Territory Orchestra feat Sandra St. Victor and Joan as Police Woman
04/01/2026
Such a beautiful night with the Cats!
We had A TIME!!
📸 : Cara Lorraine / .cara 🙌🏽🙌🏽 thank you so much for capturing these! 🤌🏽
03/30/2026
Tonight!!
Cmon on down, or tune in through the Smalls Live website - if you do the latter, cmon back here and comment “what up!”
Looking forward!
Another phenomenal two day/three show run at Broadway’s at the Walter Kerr Theatre!
The way the new cast is shaping the story through their voices is truly one of my favorite parts of music/entertainment/showbiz! Being able to connect with them on and off stage and contribute my energy, pairing it with theirs - for the ideal end result, giving the audiences something real that resonates and sticks with them for a long time!
Wednesday, March 26th matinee and evening audiences?? Yall were liiiiiiittttt!! Yall were definitely on those rides with us, and we thank you!
Also my new secret to a two show day might just be hitting the gym on your dinner break! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💫
butdidyouGYMtoday??
03/06/2026
Sir Jack Jeffers afforded me my first gig in NYC with his New York Classics Big Band.
I was so nervous bc I didn’t live here/in NYC and I figured as soon as he found that out, he’d give the gig away to someone else.
So I played it low key, took a MegaBus up from Baltimore, and sight-read and played my ass off as best I could…met Camille Thurman - Green, Terry L. Greene II, Sam Burtis🕊️, Kevin Bryan🕊️, Shareef Clayton, and quite a few others that night…I left thinking, damn everybody in NYC is so amazing!!!
Sir Jack Jeffers, of course, asked me what part of town I lived in at intermission, and I confessed I came up from Baltimore…he laughed and said “well
I’m glad you did, looks like you’re someone I need to know, but make sure you get home safely, and come back for good. We’ve got work to do!”
He always uplifted me and told me stories about JJ, Slide, Lee Morgan, Basie, and so many of my other my favorite musicians who he knew and with whom he was colleagues; he always dropped gems on staying in NYC, gave me insight about arranging, introduced me to other elders and cats that would be on the gigs or came to his house for rehearsals, checked on me, always shared the realness…
During rehearsals at his house on the UWS, he’d have appetizers, wine, and Hennessy (😅 of which I was a big fan at that time, as was he 😆)….and he ALWAYS paid cats $5 for making it to rehearsals, which was ALWAYS in a small mannilla envelope on the stand waiting for you…. he made me understand, it was the smallest token of appreciation for making the effort and helping him sift through the music to get it ready.
I also always thought it beautiful how highly he spoke of Ms. Cynthia, his wife, who was also present at the gigs and rehearsals.
He taught me so much about this music by being present, sticking around and living through the music, sharing and passing on. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I am yet another who Sir Jack Jeffers did so much for, and am indebted to his giving spirit.
Rest in Power, SJJ.
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