[mephipps]

Someone reported his death.

 

[Llareggub]

Please don't tell me this is true.
What are your sources?

 

[10mfan]

I am very good friends with his brother Antoine, and I am praying for his family.

I just checked around and cant believe it. So young and so amazingly talented!
He was incredible.

Another Corona Virus loss....

 

[Llareggub]

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/03/wallace-roney-dead/

I really hope it is fake news

 

[Rackety Sax]

I'm sorry to say Christian McBride has acknowledged Wallace Roney's passing on Twitter.

 

[Rackety Sax]

90.1 WGMC-FM says the cause is complications of coronavirus.

This disease is going to hit the music community so hard and in so many ways.

 

[Llareggub]

More sad news every day.
Also I can not believe this.

 

[Benjamin Allen]

This is terrible news. I'm very sorry to hear it. It feels like he was so young.

 

[LateNiteSax]

RIP Wallace. You were incredible.

 

[Jazzoetry]

Yea it's sad and true. I see it all on the internet now.

 

[johnebravo]

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/8248...mpeter-dies-from-covid-19-complications-at-59

Unbelievably sad.

 

[Jazz Is All]

He was only 51. Very sad. I saw him back about 5 years ago when he and his band played here in Barcelona during a tour of Eastern and Western Europe and he was stellar. One thing this tragic loss makes me realize is that the lung development of a wind player cannot save us from this Virus . I think we all might have been thinking that a Trumpet player of his level with the chops it requires would not be felled so easily, yet here is the sad news. So we sax players of whatever level best not think that alone is going to get us through if we get this awful bug.

 

[Lambros]

if anything it makes us more susceptible; what horrible news...

He was only 51. Very sad. I saw him back about 5 years ago when he and his band played here in Barcelona during a tour of Eastern and Western Europe and he was stellar. One thing this tragic loss makes me realize is that the lung development of a wind player cannot save us from this Virus . I think we all might have been thinking that a Trumpet player of his level with the chops it requires would not be felled so easily, yet here is the sad news. So we sax players of whatever level best not think that alone is going to get us through if we get this awful bug.

 

[Sakshama]

61 years old to be more correct. I know his brother Antoine well. Rest in peace and condolences to the family.

 

[MLucky]

This was such sad news, and it made a bad day much worse. But then I put on some of Wallace's music, and felt a little better. One of my favorite trumpet players ever.

 

[Jazz Is All]

61 years old to be more correct. I know his brother Antoine well. Rest in peace and condolences to the family.

Sorry for that mistake. Even at 61 it is way too young to die and he would not have were this virus not running rampant across the world. Terribly sad for anyone his age, younger or older too, and tragic when it is someone who has contributed so much to the arts and had so much more in him to share. I feel for his family and friends.

 

[Michael_A]

out of TOTM recordings topic... jazz musician died ...

my brother told that heard the news about death of jazz musician...
I checked... Oh god... there are many musicians...

So on Tuesday Wallace Roney. I watched him last summer and two years ago. Amazing impression of live performance in a small venue with powerful brass that not killing the ear, but entering your gut.

Herbie talks about him in the article:

Jazz Trumpeter Wallace Roney Dies of Coronavirus Complications at 59: 'His Time Here Was Well Spent'

The musician was the protégé of the legendary Miles Davis
https://people.com/music/wallace-roney-dead-coronavirus-jazz-trumpeter/

 

[dexdex]

Sad news indeed. RIP

 

[Sonso]

Mike Longo, Ellis Marsalis, and Ray Mantilla all this week.

 

[clarnut]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/arts/music/wallace-roney-dead-coronavirus.html