The trumpeter Wallace Roney has died of Coronavirus complications.
A Philadelphian who studied with Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie, he hooked up with Miles Davis in the 1980s, who began mentoring Roney in the mid-’80s and made an awards-laden career.
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Huge loss, RIP.
His late wife Geri Allen (d. 2017 from cancer) was one of the most exceptional jazz pianists of her generation –those born in the 1950s-1960s.
Such a tragic loss for jazz with both Geri and now Wallace gone.
Wallace Roney was a very, very good jazz trumpeter. Some of the tunes he liked to do were a bit more modern and ‘out’ than I care for, but his agility on the horn was never in doubt. I’m sure many in the jazz and trumpet communities will miss him.