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. Jonathan Chimene/WBGO His nuanced understanding of Davis’s playing — its harmonic and rhythmic wirings as well as its smoldering tone — was only part of a vast musical ken. In his city debut, in 1976, he played at Ali’s Alley, a loft space in SoHo.“As soon as Mr. Roney commenced to swing, the noise level in the club immediately dropped off, and those in the middle of conversations or laughing and joking turned their attention to the bandstand,” the critic Stanley Crouch later wrote of that show for “At the end of the tune, the room took on a crazily jubilant mood, and the clapping wouldn’t stop,” Mr. Crouch added.In addition to his fiancée, a vocalist and educator whom he had known since high school, and his grandmother Rosezell, Mr. Roney is survived by his sister, Crystal Roney; a brother, the saxophonist Antoine Roney; two half sisters, April Petus and Marla Majett; a half brother, Michael Majett; a son, Wallace Vernell Roney, a trumpeter now on the rise on the New York scene; and a daughter, Barbara Roney. When his parents divorced, he moved to Washington with his father, and enrolled at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, also taking private lessons with Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie. “Wallace Roney’s journey has ended in this lifetime, but his impact lives on,” the musician Herbie Hancock said in a statement Wednesday. Wallace Roney, the legendary jazz trumpeter and protege of Miles Davis, has died at the age of 59. "It was an honor to represent him and to be part of his musical world. Don’t cheat on it. Roney made nearly 20 albums as a bandleader, including three for Warner Bros. at the peak of the Young Lions era, all grounded in his unshakable linguistic command and his appetite for harmonic adventure. Roney is survived by his wife, Dawn, as well as three children from a previous marriage. He took lessons from Sigmund Hering of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and by age 12 he was a member of a classical brass quintet. "Yet as he rises to walk toward the stage, moving like a shadow, the other horn players — trumpeters and saxmen lined against the wall waiting to blow — part respectfully to let him pass.

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Survivors also include a stepdaughter, Laila Bansaiz; Jones, his life partner of more than a decade; his grandmother, Rosezell Roney; two brothers, Antoine Roney and Michael Majett; and three sisters, Crystal Roney, Marla Majett and April Petus.While he was widely understood as a post-bop paragon, Roney delved meaningfully into funk and fusion, and he spent some formative time with free-jazz titan Ornette Coleman. "Roney won a Grammy in 1994 for the album "A Tribute To Miles," and was nominated for another in 1997. They represented a flush of creativity after years of frustration under contract to a label that often imposed unwelcome creative demands.On “No Room for Argument” (2000), released on Stretch Records, Mr. Roney struck a nimble balance between historical reverence and futurist adventure, pairing a synthesizer with a Fender Rhodes electric piano and, at one point, mashing up parts of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” with Davis’s “Filles de Kilimanjaro.” Its follow-up, “Prototype” (2004), for High Note, featured different sorts of homage: separate reworkings of the titular Outkast ballad and Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.”Mr. (CNN) Legendary jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney has died of … She said Roney had been admitted to the hospital last Wednesday.Roney first rose to prominence as a sharp young steward of the modern jazz tradition, winning national awards in his early 20s and joining several high-profile bands. After further study at Berklee School of Music in Boston and Howard University, Mr. Roney started gigging in New York. "Roney has long since carved out his own reputation as a true modern great.

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. Roney and Allen were married in 1995, and for a time they routinely appeared in each other's bands; he can be heard on several of her albums, including the classic Their children, Barbara and Wallace, Jr. are among Roney's surviving family.

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