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Wallace Roney (May 25, 1960 – March 31, 2020) was an American jazz (hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter. He has won 1 Grammy award and has two nominations. Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from 1985 until the latter's death in 1991. Wallace credited Davis as having helped to challenge and shape ...
Mar 31, 2020 · Wallace Roney, a virtuoso trumpeter whose term as Miles Davis’s only true protégé opened onto a prominent career in jazz, died on Tuesday in Paterson, N.J. He was 59. The cause was...
Mar 31, 2020 · Wallace Roney, a trumpeter and composer who embodied the pugnacious, harmonically restive side of post-bop throughout an illustrious four-decade career, died this morning at St. Joseph's...
Historic night at Jazz Standard as Wallace Roney debuts Wayne Shorter's long-lost "Universe" with his quintet and orchestra. Read More >> Would you like Wallace Roney to come to your venue? Demand it at Eventful >> New CD Release. WALLACE RONEY - A Place In Time. I Suggest. Dawn Jones - Official Site >>
Apr 1, 2020 · Legendary jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney has died of complications from the novel coronavirus, his publicist said. He was 59. Roney died Tuesday at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in...
Mar 31, 2020 · Trumpeter Wallace Roney—a stalwart of New York’s straightahead scene whose career put him in the path of legends like Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter—died March 31 at the age of 59 due to complications from COVID-19.
Wallace Roney is from Philadelphia, PA, born May 25, 1960. He began his musical studies at the age of five, learning rhythmic dictation and sight-reading. He began playing the trumpet at age six.
Apr 1, 2020 · Wallace Roney was a jazz trumpet legend who was the only protégé of jazz giant Miles Davis. An accomplished jazz trumpeter at a young age, he met Miles Davis after he performed at a...
Apr 2, 2020 · Wallace Roney, 59, the Philadelphia-born trumpet virtuoso who was a protégé of Miles Davis and went on to have a three-decade-plus career as a jazz bandleader, died Tuesday, March 31, from complications of the coronavirus.
Sep 15, 2020 · Trumpeter Wallace Roney died from complications of the COVID-19 virus on March 31, 2020 at the age of 59. But his life in Philadelphia and beyond will always make him a Hometown Hero. Born on May 25, 1960 in Philadelphia, Roney would become one of the leading lights of The Young Lions Movement in the 1980s.
