Mistérios is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney, recorded in 1994 and released on the Warner Bros. label.^[1]

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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Trumpeter Wallace Roney avoids the standard repertoire altogether on this CD, ... but, try as hard as he may, he still sounds like Miles Davis every time he hits a long tone or plays a doubletime passage. Backed by a small orchestra that mostly interprets Gil Goldstein arrangements, Roney is the main soloist throughout this interesting ballad-dominated set".^[2]

In The Washington Post, Geoffrey Himes wrote: "Not only was this recording supervised by Davis's old producer, Teo Macero, but it features Evans-like orchestral arrangements by Gil Goldstein, who had transcribed and adapted Evans's charts for Miles Davis & Quincy Jones Live at Montreux ... Because Roney emphasizes feeling over technique, Misterios has the chance to connect with a non-jazz audience as few acoustic jazz albums have since Davis's heyday".^[3]

In JazzTimes, David R. Adler noted: "Misterios, his debut for the label, is in many respects a marvelous piece of work—with jazz ensemble and strings interpreting works by Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Egberto Gismonti and, bizarrely enough, Dolly Parton. The label wanted a cover of a Grammy-winning song, and Roney averted a potential disaster, turning “I Will Always Love You,” the Parton-penned Whitney Houston hit, into a thing of enigmatic beauty, an unabashed valentine to his departed friend and mentor, Miles Davis".^[4]

1. "Meu Menino" (Danilo Caymmi, Ana Terra) – 6:15
2. "In Her Family" (Pat Metheny) – 4:47
3. "Michelle" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 6:31
4. "Cafe" (Egberto Gismonti) – 6:28
5. "Mistérios" (Joyce, Mauricio Maestro) – 4:52
6. "Last to Know" (Metheny) – 6:47
7. "Memoria e Fado" (Gismonti) – 5:16
8. "71+" (Jaco Pastorius) – 6:51
9. "Muerte" (Astor Piazzolla) – 5:48
10. "I Will Always Love You" (Dolly Parton) – 5:19

• Wallace Roney − trumpet, arranger
• Gil Goldstein – arranger, conductor, keyboards
• Ravi Coltrane (track 9), Antoine Roney (tracks 4, 6 & 8) − tenor saxophone
• Geri Allen − piano, arranger
• Clarence Seay − double bass
• Eric Allen − drums
• Steve Berrios, Steve Thornton, Valtinho Anastacio – percussion
• Orchestra:
  • Eric Wyrick (concertmaster), Liang-Ping How, Sandra Park – violin
  • Louise Schulman, Maureen Gallagher – viola
  • Eugene J. Moye Jr., Richard Locker – cello
  • Andrew Sterman, Chris Hunter, Harvey Estrin, Lawrence Feldman, Robert Steen – flute, recorder