Ron Bridgewater

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Ron Bridgewater (right) and his brother Cecil at Boomer's Club in New York City 1976

Ronald "Ron" Bridgewater (* 1947 in Champaign (Illinois) ) is an American jazz musician ( soprano and tenor saxophone , flute , also composition ) and a university teacher.

Live and act

Bridgewater came from a family of musicians; his brother is the jazz trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater , with whom he started his career in New York City a. a. participated in recordings of Melvin Sparks ( Texas Twiste , 1972) and Billy Parker's Fourth World Band . In the same year he toured the Soviet Union with the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra as a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In the following years he worked a. a. as a member of this big band and with Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Sam Rivers ( Crystals , 1974), Horace Silver , Dee Dee Bridgewater , Anthony Braxton ( Creative Orchestra Music 1976 ), Max Roach & The JC White Singers, McCoy Tyner , Kazumi Watanabe , Michael Carvin , Brother Jack McDuff, and Houston Person . For Jon Faddis / Billy Harper ( Jon & Billy ) he wrote the title "Water Bridge-Mizu Hashi San". In 1978 he recorded with his brother (as Bridgewater Brothers ) for Denon on the album Generations Suite . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 32 recording sessions between 1972 and 1997, according to Tom Lord , in Chicago with Malachi Thompson's Freebop Band . Bridgewater has also worked as a theater musician on New York's Broadway , where he has appeared on shows such as Ain't Misbehavin ', Sophisticated Ladies and Lena Horne - The Lady and Her Music .

Bridgewater has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing Music Department since 1989 ; Since 1994 he has taught jazz saxophone and improvisation there as an associate professor , after teaching at Jazzmobile during his time in New York .

Discographic notes

  • Dee Dee Bridgewater: Afro Blue (Trio Records, 1974)
  • McCoy Tyner: Focal Point (Milestone, 1976)
  • Bridgewater Brothers: Generations Suite (Denon, 1979), with Cecil Bridgewater, Hubert Eaves , Donald Smith , Reggie Workman , Michael Carvin
  • Cecil Bridgewater: Mean What You Say (Brownstone, 1998)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ron Bridgewater, saxophonist and educator
  2. ^ A b Melissa Merli: Getting Personal: Ron Bridgewater. New Gazette, July 1, 2014, accessed July 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 13, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Bridgewater, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bridgewater, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (saxophone, flute) and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Champaign (Illinois)