Jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney dies from coronavirus at 59

Jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney dies from coronavirus at 59 1

Born in Philadelphia in 1960, Roney garnered acclaim at a young age in the jazz world. But his true moment of stardom came at the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival, when none other than Miles Davis enlisted him to play onstage with the legend himself. Though his full body of work far exceeds a simple association with an icon, Roney also earned a Grammy Award in 1994 for “A Tribute To Miles,” which saw the trumpeter take over Davis’s spot in the Miles Davis Quintet.

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