What is Wallace Roney?
[[File:Wallace Roney Pori Jazz 2012 (cropped).JPG|thumb|200px|Roney in 2012]] '''Wallace Roney''' (May 25, 1960 – March 31, 2020) was an [[Americans|American]] [[jazz]] (hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter. He took lessons from [[Clark Terry]] and [[Dizzy Gillespie]]. He studied with [[Miles Davis]] from 1985 until his death in 1991. He was the only trumpet player Davis personally mentored. He was born in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. On March 31, 2020, during the [[2019–20 coronavirus pandemic]], Roney died of [[COVID-19]] in [[Paterson, New Jersey]]. He was 59.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/arts/music/wallace-roney-dead.html|title=Wallace Roney, Jazz Trumpet Virtuoso, Is Dead at 59|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 31, 2020|access-date=April 1, 2020|author=Russonello, Giovanni}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commonscat}} *{{Official|http://www.wallaceroney.com/}} *{{Discogs artist|Wallace Roney}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Roney, Wallace}} [[Category:1960 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:African-American musicians]] [[Category:American jazz musicians]] [[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey]] [[Category:Infectious disease deaths in New Jersey]] [[Category:American trumpeters]] [[Category:Musicians from Philadelphia]] {{US-bio-stub}}