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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wallace Roney

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Wallace Roney's birthday today!

Wallace Roney is from Philadelphia, PA, born May 25, 1960. He began his musical studies at the age of five, learning rhythmic dictation and sight-reading. He began playing the trumpet at age six. He was identified as a prodigy and was awarded a scholarship to the Settlement School of Music at the age of seven. It is there that Wallace received private trumpet lesson with Sigmund Herring at the age of ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wallace Roney

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Wallace Roney's birthday today!

Wallace Roney is from Philadelphia, PA, born May 25, 1960. He began his musical studies at the age of five, learning rhythmic dictation and sight-reading. He began playing the trumpet at age six. He was identified as a prodigy and was awarded a scholarship to the Settlement School of Music at the age of seven. It is there that Wallace received private trumpet lesson with Sigmund Herring at the age of ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wallace Roney

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Wallace Roney's birthday today!

Wallace Roney is from Philadelphia, PA, born May 25, 1960. He began his musical studies at the age of five, learning rhythmic dictation and sight-reading. He began playing the trumpet at age six. He was identified as a prodigy and was awarded a scholarship to the Settlement School of Music at the age of seven. It is there that Wallace received private trumpet lesson with Sigmund Herring at the age of ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wallace Roney

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Wallace Roney's birthday today!

Wallace Roney is from Philadelphia, PA, born May 25, 1960. He began his musical studies at the age of five, learning rhythmic dictation and sight-reading. He began playing the trumpet at age six. He was identified as a prodigy and was awarded a scholarship to the Settlement School of Music at the age of seven. It is there that Wallace received private trumpet lesson with Sigmund Herring at the age of ...
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Watch Trailer For Bob Dylan’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ Martin Scorsese Netflix Doc

Source: HypeBot
June 5, 2019

“It wasn’t a success, not if you measure success in terms of profit,” Bob Dylan says of the 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour in his first on-camera interview in over a decade. The Martin Scorsese produced documentary will be released ion Netflix and in select theaters on June 12th. According to Netflix “Setting out across a 1975 America exhausted politically, economically and socially, a busload of musicians—assembled by Bob Dylan—hits the road in search of new creative horizons. The resulting ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wallace Roney

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Wallace Roney's birthday today!

Wallace Roney is from Philadelphia, PA, born May 25, 1960. He began his musical studies at the age of five, learning rhythmic dictation and sight-reading. He began playing the trumpet at age six. He was identified as a prodigy and was awarded a scholarship to the Settlement School of Music at the age of seven. It is there that Wallace received private trumpet lesson with Sigmund Herring at the age of ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wallace Roney

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Wallace Roney's birthday today!

Wallace Roney is from Philadelphia, PA, born May 25, 1960. He began his musical studies at the age of five, learning rhythmic dictation and sight-reading. He began playing the trumpet at age six. He was identified as a prodigy and was awarded a scholarship to the Settlement School of Music at the age of seven. It is there that Wallace received private trumpet lesson with Sigmund Herring at the age of ...
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Jazz this week: Shawn Maxwell's New Tomorrow, The People's Key, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 3, 2017

This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features a couple of multi-artist performances of experimental music, an up- and-coming new contemporary jazz quintet from Chicago, plus some local favorites. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, August 2 This week's “Grand Center Jazz Crawl" has trumpeter T.J Müller at KDHX's Magnolia Cafe; the jam session with bassist Bob Deboo and friends at Kranzberg Arts Center; and trumpeter Kasimu Taylor at The Dark Room. Also on Wednesday, ...
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Jazz this week: Gateway Jazz Festival, Ptah Williams, Emily Wallace, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 28, 2017

Due to some temporary time constraints and computer-related difficulties here at StLJN HQ, this week's survey of upcoming live jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis may be a day later than usual, but there still are shows worth noting, so let's go straight to the highlights... Thursday, July 27 This week's performance wrapping up the Jazz at Holmes “Jazz in July" series of free concerts at Washington University will feature a trio with pianist Ptah Williams, drummer Stephen ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wallace Roney

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Wallace Roney's birthday today!

At a time when much of the Jazz world seems content to simply attempt to recreate the past, trumpeter/composer Wallace Roney follows the true Jazz tradition of utilizing the past to move forward. This has resulted in acknowledgment by the public and his peers with his receipt of three Grammy Awards and numerous nominations for projects in which he was the featured performer and/or collaborator... Read more.

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