# RIP Wallace Roney, jazz trumpet

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-wallace-roney-jazz-trumpet/850913
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** celebrity-death
**Created:** [April 2, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-wallace-roney-jazz-trumpet/850913 "2020-04-02T20:58:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-wallace-roney-jazz-trumpet/850913/1 "2020-04-02T20:58:35Z")

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Age 59, dead of Coronavirus.

Miss you already. Twice as much talent as everyone combined in the pushy, phony-assed, PR-obsessed Marsalis family.

I’m not fond of RIP threads either, but if Ellis Marsalis deserves one, I have to make a stand for Mr. Roney

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nkJoTY0GE8M/hqdefault.jpg "Tony Williams Quintet - NY Live 1989. Part 1 of 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkJoTY0GE8M)

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### Author: ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-wallace-roney-jazz-trumpet/850913/2 "2020-04-02T22:05:13Z")

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Nice swing. Thank you for resisting the urge to thread-shit in the other one on Ellis M.

Damn, now [Bucky Pizzarelli](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/music/bucky-pizzarelli-dead-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries), too. We’re gonna need an omnibus thread if this keeps up.