Wallace Roney, Jazz Trumpeter, Dead at 59 of COVID-19 Complications
Wallace Roney, an accomplished jazz trumpeter who studied under and collaborated with the likes of Miles Davis and Art Blakey over a four-decade career, died this morning of complications from COVID-19, NPR reports. He had been admitted to St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey last Wednesday, March 25. He was 59.