Ronnie Beer

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Ronald Irving "Ronnie" Beer (* 1941 in Cape Town ) is a South African jazz musician ( tenor and alto saxophone , flute ).

Beer had his own quintet in Cape Town in the early 1960s (including with Tete Mbambisa and Selwyn Lissack ). With his Swinging City Six he played at the National Jazz Festival in Johannesburg in 1963 and won it. There he also appeared in Chris McGregor's Castle Lager Big Band ( The African Sound , 1963). In 1964 he was a member of the Jazz Disciples . After leaving South Africa, he came to London. In the second half of the 1960s he was a member of the sextet of Chris McGregor; from 1967 he was part of the first formation of McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath . In 1968 he moved to Paris and performed with Sunny Murray in Berlin. He has also participated in the recordings of Gwigwi Mrwebi , Tunji Oyelana , Kenneth Terroade and Alan Silva's Celestrial Communication Orchestra . In the field of jazz he was involved in nine recording sessions between 1967 and 1971. In 1973 Beer went to South Africa, then to Ibiza, where he no longer worked as a musician but as a carpenter in boat building.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maxine McGregor, Chris McGregor and the Brotherhood of Breath . Flint 1995, p. 98
  2. ↑ http://electricjive.blogspot.de/2013/03/the-jazz-disciples-cape-town-1964.html
  3. ↑ Eric Ayisi Akrofi, Maria Smit, Stig-Magnus Thorsén: Music and Identity: Transformation and Negotiation 2007, p. 261
  4. ^ Maxine McGregor, Chris McGregor and the Brotherhood of Breath . Flint 1995, pp. 106-115
  5. ↑ 1967, with Dudu Pukwana , Chris McGregor, Coleridge Goode , Laurie Allan
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 28, 2015)
  7. ^ Hardy Stockman: Cape Town jazz, 1959-1963: the photographs of Hardy Stockmann 2001
  8. ^ George McKay: Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain . 2004, p. 184
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Ronnie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beer, Ronald Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town