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Wallace Roney was born on 25 May, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American jazz trumpeter (1960–2020). Discover Wallace Roney's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?
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59 years old |
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25 May 1960 |
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25 May |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Date of death |
March 31, 2020 |
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Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. |
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United States
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Wallace Roney Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Wallace Roney's Wife?
His wife is Geri Allen (m. 1995)
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Wallace Roney Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Wallace Roney worth at the age of 59 years old? Wallace Roney’s income source is mostly from being a successful Musician. He is from United States. We have estimated Wallace Roney's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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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.
In 1979 and 1980, Roney won the DownBeat Award for Best Young Jazz Musician of the Year, and in 1989 and 1990 the DownBeat Magazine's Critic's Poll for Best Trumpeter to Watch.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was an integral part of Williams's quintet.
In 1983, while taking part in a tribute to Miles Davis at "The Bottom Line" in Manhattan, he met his idol.
"He [Davis] asked me what kind of trumpet I had," Roney told Time magazine, "and I told him none. So he gave Me One of his."
In 1984 and 1985, he was forced to play in Latin dance and reception bands, as the New York clubs, once a prominent part of the jazz scene, had mostly disappeared.
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 only trumpet player Davis personally mentored.
Roney was born in Philadelphia.
He attended Howard University and Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, after graduating from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts of the D. C. Public Schools, where he studied trumpet with Langston Fitzgerald of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Found to have perfect pitch at the age of four, Wallace began his musical and trumpet studies at Philadelphia's Settlement School of Music.
He studied with trumpeter Sigmund Hering of the Philadelphia Orchestra for three years.
Hering regularly presented Wallace at recitals at the Settlement School, and with the Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, during his studies in Philadelphia.
When he entered the Duke Ellington School, Roney had already made his recording debut at age 15 with Nation and Haki R. Madhubuti, and at that time met, among others, Bill Hardman, Valery Ponomarev, Woody Shaw (who befriended him), Johnny Coles and Freddie Hubbard.
Roney attained distinction as a gifted local performer in the Washington, D.C area.
But in 1986, he received a pair of calls, in the same month, to tour with drummers Tony Williams and Art Blakey, after which Roney became one of the most in-demand trumpet players on the professional circuit.
In 1986, he succeeded Terence Blanchard in Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Roney recorded his debut album as a leader, Verses, on Muse Records in 1987.
The two artists collaborated on records on many occasions during the 1990s and 2000s, on records released under each artist's name.
Earlier in his life, Roney had been a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.
In 1991, Roney played with Davis at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
After Davis's death that year, Roney toured in memoriam with Davis alumni Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams and recorded an album, A Tribute to Miles, for which they won a Grammy Award.
Roney learned his craft directly from Miles Davis.
Critics have taken Roney to task for sounding too similar to his idol.
In 1995, Roney married pianist Geri Allen, with whom he had two daughters and a son.
A number of albums on Muse, Warner Bros. Records and Concord Records/Stretch Records followed, and by the time he turned 40 in 2000 Roney had been documented on over 250 audio recordings.
His album titles from the 2000s include Mystikal (2005) and Jazz (2007) on HighNote Records.
His two most recent albums are A Place in Time (HighNote 2016) and Blue Dawn - Blue Nights (HighNote 2019), which features his nephew, drummer Kojo Roney.
Wallace Roney was the son of Wallace Roney, U.S. Marshal and President of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 102, grandson of Philadelphia musician Roosevelt Sherman, and older brother of tenor and soprano saxophonist Antoine Roney.
The marriage ended prior to Allen's death in 2017.
Wallace Roney died at the age of 59 on March 31, 2020, at St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey.
The cause was complications arising from COVID-19.