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April 01, 2020

Celebrated jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney dies from coronavirus ate age 59

Jazz great and trumpeter Wallace Roney, who studied under Miles Davis and played with Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock and more, died on Tuesday (March 31) due to complications from COVID-19, at age 59, NPR reports. Roney recorded 21 albums as a leader, performed with his idol Miles Davis at the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival (watch it below), and won a Grammy with the surviving members of the Miles Davis Quintet for the album 'A Tribute to Miles'.