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Ron Jackson Jazz Band from Brooklyn, NY

Will travel up to 3000 miles

  • 1 Verified Booking
  • Member Since 2002
  • 1 Award or Badge
  • Starting at $500 per event

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NYC jazz guitarist, Acoustic Guitar Magazine Contributor/Writer, Broadway musician Ron Jackson is a 6+7 string master guitarist with 8 CD's of his own. He has performed on Broadway for 20 years in many shows such as "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk", “Rent,” "Fosse", "Avenue Q", "Shuffle Along" and "Disaster". Having toured in over 20 countries, Ron is well established on the international jazz scene. Ron's style of guitar playing and composing is a blend of jazz, soul, R+B, pop, as well as Caribbean and Latin, having been influenced by his Philippine roots. Ron's band will provide you with the best music for your wedding, company event or party and your concert, club or festival. Ron has 5 jazz guitar albums to his credit as a leader: A Guitar Thing and Thinking of You on Muse Records, Song For Luis - a duo with Rufus Reid on Mastermix Records, Concrete Jungle - co-led with bassist Nicki Parrott on Airmen Records, and The Dream I Had on Roni Music. Branching out stylistically, Ron has 2 new CD's on his Roni Music Label. Burning Gums and Flubby Dubby, Ron's new CD with his Hammond organ group was recorded live and perfectly showcases his soul-jazz originals and arrangements of popular tunes. The album features Kyle Koehler on Hammond and Otis Brown III on drums with special guests Don Braden on tenor saxophone and Bruce Williams on alto. Giving it that special touch, the album was produced by Ron's mentor, the late soul-jazz and acid jazz pioneer Melvin Sparks. Check out Ron's new all acoustic guitar recording "Akustik InventYours" "For a solo instrumental jaunt through acoustic music from around the world, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better starting point than Akusitk InventYours" Acoustic Guitar Magazine Ron has recorded and performed with jazz, blues and World music, greats such as, Taj Majal, Little Anthony and The Imperials, James Spaulding, The Boys Choir of Harlem, The Metro Mass Choir, Mor Thaims Drums of Fire, Irene Reid, Hal Singer, TK Blue, Sarah Dash, Gene Anthony Ray, Cecil Brooks III, TAO, Melvin Rhyne, Jimmy McGriff, 5 Guitars Play Mingus, Cissy Houston, Kevin Powell, Ralph Peterson, Russell Malone, Larry Coryell, Jack Wilkins, Don Braden, Craig Handy, Vanessa Rubin, David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness, Renee Manning, Earl Mcintyre, Clark Gayton, Benny Powell, Babatunde Olatunji, The Metro Mass Choir, Benny Golson, Randy Weston, Ron Carter, Valery Ponomarev, Oliver Lake, Leo Wright, Jaki Byard, Mulgrew Miller, Winard Harper, Akua Dixon, Kenny Drew Jr., Olatunji, Gwen Guthrie, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Raul Midon, Jimmy Cobb, Rufus Reid, Larry Coryell, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Bernard Purdie, Dewey Redman, Howard Johnson, Benny Powell, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Gary Bartz, John Hicks, Ron Blake, Akira Tana, Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, Sitti Navarro the Queen of Philippine Bossa Nova, and Candido to name a few. Ron frequently plays in New York City area and has performed at such notable clubs and institutions as The Blue Note, Fat Tuesday, Smalls, Iridium, Joe's Pub, Birdland, Dizzy's, 55Bar, The Kitano, The Jazz Gallery, Fat Cat, Nublu, B.B.Kings, Lenox Lounge, Showmans, The Red Rooster, The Zinc Bar, NPR, Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies, New York Botanical Garden, Lincoln Center, Flushing Town Hall, The Apollo Theater, Guggenheim Museum, The Museum Of Modern Art, Symphony Space, Baruch PAC, Tribeca PAC, The Brooklyn Museum, Harlem Stage, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The Newark Museum, The Shapeshifter Lab, Aaron Davis Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Brooklyn Conservatory, The Museum Of Natural History and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Ron's style of Jazz Guitar has had him appear at major festivals all over the USA like the New Orleans Heritage and Jazz Festival, The Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, Atlanta Arts Festival, City Stages in Birmingham, Alabama, The North Carolina Jazz Festival, The Newark Jazz Festival, Kingston Jazz Festival, The Rochester International Jazz Festival, The International Art Of Jazz Festival on Long Island, The James Moody Jazz Festival, and The National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta. His unique sound has also brought him overseas to the The North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland, the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland, the Hamilton, Kiama and Montsalvat festivals in Australia, the Berlin Jazz Festival, the Grimsby and Edinburgh Festivals in the UK, Old Town Jazz Festival in Warsaw, Poland, the Istanbul Jazz Festival, Jazz Entre Amigos TV Show and San Juan Evangelista Festival in Spain, as well as the Cully and Freibourg Jazz festivals Switzerland. He has also toured and performed in St.Thomas, Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Austria, Australia, Canada, Lebanon, Monaco, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Japan.

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  • All I Do | Stevie Wonder
  • Sir Duke | Stevie Wonder
  • That Girl | Stevie Wonder
  • Through The Fire | Chaka Khan
  • Do I Do | Stevie Wonder
  • Lovely Day | Bill Withers
  • Rapture | Anita Baker
  • Living For The City | Stevie Wonder
  • Just The Way You Are | Billy Joel
  • Yesterday | The Beatles
  • Isn’t She Lovely | Stevie Wonder
  • Killing Me Softly | Roberta Flack
  • Betcha By Golly Wow | The Stylistics

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Past Events

November 16, 2016 • Symphony Space
Wed9:00 PM - 10:30 PM New York City, NY
October 23, 2016 • Vella
Sun4:00 PM - 7:00 PM New York City, NY
October 20, 2016 • Tomi Jazz
Thu9:00 PM - 11:30 PM New York City, NY
September 29, 2016 • Wythe Hotel
Thu7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Brooklyn, NY
September 26, 2016 • Waldorf Astoria
Mon6:00 PM - 10:00 PM New York City, NY
September 15, 2016 • Private Event
Thu6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Brooklyn, NY
September 14, 2016 • Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Wed1:00 PM - 2:00 PM New York City, NY
September 11, 2016 • The Bickering Sisters
Sun11:30 AM - 3:30 PM Ogden, UT
September 8, 2016 • Bill Hodges Gallery
Thu6:00 PM - 8:00 PM New York City, NY
September 7, 2016 • Cleopatra's Needle
Wed11:30 PM - 2:30 AM New York City, NY
May 23, 2003 • Private Party
Fri11:00 PM - 12:00 AM New York City, NY

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