Wallace Roney, a celebrated jazz trumpeter and Miles Davis protégé, has died after contracting the coronavirus. Peaceful Journey, Wallace Roney March 31, 2020 We are devastated that our brother trumpeter Wallace Roney passed away today due to complications from COVID-19.

By Sanford Josephson. Wallace Roney was born on May 25, 1960, in Philadelphia. Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from 1985 until the latter's death in 1991. Roney and Miles Davis played together at a Montreux Jazz Festival concert in Switzerland that was directed by Quincy Jones, the tweet from the Miles Davis Twitter account said. 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. He will become his mentor, his chaperone.

He began his musical studies at the age of five, learning rhythmic dictation and sight-reading. Wallace Roney - Biography Wallace Roney earned the admiration and respect of his colleagues and his elders since age 16.
Ce disque, plus je l'écoute, et plus il me devient indispensable. 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 … Davis died in 1991. Trumpeter Wallace Roney (left) and saxophonist Gary Bartz perform at New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Medallion Ceremony for Miles Davis at … Wallace Roney, a Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter celebrated for his interpretations of Miles Davis, has died aged 59 after contracting Covid-19. With his youth spent learning from greats like Miles Davis, Roney knows the value of mentorship in the success of his art.

Miles Davis attends the performance of 23-year-old Wallace Roney and becomes fond of this brilliant, fiery and daring trumpet player.
Wallace credited Davis as having helped to challenge and shape his creative approach to life as well as being his music instructor, mentor, and friend; he was the only trumpet player Davis personally mentored. ... All of the time spent studying under and hanging with Miles Davis led Miles to ask Wallace to play with him on the Historic Miles at Montreux Concert. He was 59. Wallace Roney is from Philadelphia, PA, born May 25, 1960. Wallace Roney and double bassist Cecil McBee (behind), in concert in Amsterdam, August 14, 1982. Furthermore, he excels at it.” In 1994, Roney won a Grammy Award, filling Davis’ trumpet chair in A Tribute to Miles (Qwest/Reprise/Warner Bros.). The virtuoso succumbed … Jazz Trumpeter Wallace Roney Dies of Coronavirus Complications at 59: 'His Time Here Was Well Spent' The musician was the protégé of the legendary Miles Davis Roney and Miles Davis played together at a Montreux Jazz Festival concert in Switzerland that was directed by Quincy Jones, the tweet from the Miles Davis Twitter account said.

He was 59. Wallace was a global life force in the jazz community. Wallace Roney, a star trumpeter—and the only trumpeter ever to study personally with Miles Davis—who built a 40-plus-year career chasing the cutting edge of jazz, died on the morning of March 31 at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey. Wallace Roney, a celebrated jazz trumpeter and Miles Davis protégé, has died after contracting the coronavirus. 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. The virtuoso succumbed … When Gerry Mulligan thought about recording a Re-Birth of the Cool album for GRP Records in early 1991, he hoped that Miles Davis would join him for that reunion.Unfortunately, Davis died before the recording could take place.