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Wallace Roney (May 25, 1960 – March 31, 2020) was an American jazz (hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter. [1] [2] He has won 1 Grammy award and has two nominations.[3]Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from 1985 until the latter's death in 1991.
5897 [ 1] Lauretha A. Vaird (August 4, 1952 – January 2, 1996) was a Philadelphia Police Department officer who was shot dead by the rapper Christopher Roney aka "Cool C" during a botched armed bank robbery in January 1996. Roney attempted to rob the bank with another rapper, Warren McGlone aka "Steady B", and another man, Mark Canty.
Ronnie Spector. Veronica Yvette Greenfield[ 1] (previously Spector, née Bennett; August 10, 1943 – January 12, 2022) was an American singer who co-founded and fronted the girl group the Ronettes. She is sometimes referred to as the original "bad girl of rock and roll ". [ 2][ 3]
Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African-American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated on the I-210.
Wallace Roney: 59 Jazz trumpeter United States Peter J. N. Sinclair: 73 Economist United Kingdom Michael Wakelam: 75 Biologist United Kingdom Kioumars Derambakhsh: 74 Filmmaker France (Paris) 1 April 2020: Branislav Blažić: 63 Politician Serbia (Belgrade) David Driskell: 88 Visual artist and academic United States (Washington, D.C.) Kevin ...
Roney's obituary in The New York Times noted that "on No Room for Argument (2000), released on Stretch Records, Mr. Roney struck a nimble balance between historical reverence and futurist adventure, pairing a synthesizer with a Fender Rhodes electric piano and, at one point, mashing up parts of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme with Davis’s ...
4. Rodney Bewes (27 November 1937 – 21 November 2017) [ 2] was an English television actor and writer who portrayed Bob Ferris in the BBC television sitcom The Likely Lads (1964–66) and its colour sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–74). Bewes' later career was of a much lower profile, but he continued to work as a stage actor.
Slash, the longtime guitarist for Guns N’ Roses, announced on Monday, July 22 that his stepdaughter, Lucy Bleu-Knight, died. She was just 25 years old.