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Wallace Roney

Wallace Roney was an acclaimed American jazz trumpeter who ranked among the stars of the genre after breaking through as a soloist in 1991. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 25th, 1960, he played music as a child and went on to study at the city's Settlement School of Music, Duke Ellington School of Music in Washington, D.C., Berklee School of Music in Boston and Howard University. His engaging, sometimes mournful and often brash improvisational style landed him work with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers but as the New York jazz scene dwindled in the early 1980s, he played wi...