Ronnie Laws

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Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Laws (born October 3, 1950 in Houston ) is an American smooth jazz and fusion musician (saxophone, flute, composition) and music producer.

Live and act

Laws comes from a musical family; he is a brother of Hubert Laws and founded his first band, The Lightmen, while high school . After attending college, he moved to Los Angeles , where he became a member of Earth, Wind & Fire in 1970 and was involved in their album Last Days In Time . He played with Walter Bishop Jr. , his brother and organist Doug Cann, and recorded with Hugh Masekela . In 1975, with the help of Wayne Henderson and Donald Byrd , he recorded his first own album, Pressure Sensitive , which is one of the classics of smooth jazz and includes the instrumental track "Always There" by Willie Bobo , Side Effect, Jeff Lorber , Wood Brass & Steel, Incognito and James Taylor . On his other albums, he sometimes made excursions into the world of pop music and rhythm & blues . In the 1990s he also recorded tribute albums for Eddie Harris and for the Isley Brothers .

Laws is also involved in recordings by Alphonse Mouzon ( The Sky Is the Limit , "Early Spring"), Ramsey Lewis ( Tequila Mockingbird ), Arthur Adams ( Home Brew ), Howard Hewett ( This Time ), Jeff Lorber, Sister Sledge ( Once in Your Life ) or David Sea. He produced his sisters, singers Eloise and Debra Laws .

Discographic notes

  • Pressure Sensitive ( Blue Note Records , 1975)
  • Fever (1976)
  • Friends and Strangers, (1977)
  • Flame (United Artists, 1978)
  • Every Generation (1980)
  • Voices In The Water (2009)

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SURNAME Laws, Ronnie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laws, Ronald Wayne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and fusion musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston