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Wallace Roney

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Artist information

Born in:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
United States of America
Year of Birth:1960
Year of death:2020

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

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 his creative approach to life as well as being his music instructor, mentor, and friend; he was the... more

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