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Ron Jones Jazz Saxophone

Ron has performed at Las Vegas Bellagio, New York Birdland and Waldorf Astoria, Chicago Buddy Guys' Legends, and across North America. He's recorded two original jazz CDs, written music for CNN, recorded with Al Green and Teo Macero, jammed onstage with Smokey Robinson, Mick Fleetwood, George Thorogood and Kirk Whalum, and opened for Crosby Stills & Nash. Ron performs at: Dallas Museum of Art, Sammons Center, Gaylord and other area hotels, restaurants including Sneaky Pete's, Brooklyn, Terilli's, Sambuca, Avanti. Ron teaches at Richland College. He holds music degrees from North Texas and NYU.

Saxophonist Ron Jones' live performances cover many eras of exciting jazz, swing, blues and popular music.
  • Quartet - sax, piano, bass and drums. Original jazz, and lively cocktail and dancing music
  • Trio - three of above instruments (more mellow.)
  • Duo - sax with piano or guitar (quiet tunes from jazz to rock.)
  • Solo - Ron performs solo saxophone (street-musician style) or one-man band with backup tracks (sax and flute, popular tunes for small parties, dinner music.)

standards/swing:
Ain't Misbehavin'
All The Things You Are
As Time Goes By
Bye Bye Blackbird
Cheek To Cheek
Come Rain or Come Shine
Don't Get Around Much Any More
Fly Me To The Moon
Georgia On My Mind
In The Mood
It Had to be You
Just in Time
Lady Is A Tramp
Mack the Knife
Misty
My Funny Valentine
New York New York
Night and Day
Night Train
Our Love Is Here To Stay
Satin Doll
'S Wonderful
Summertime
Take Five
Take The A-Train
Unforgettable
The Way You Look Tonight
When I Fall In Love + many others....

pop sax instrumentals:

Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers)
Feel Like Makin Love
Green Onions (Booker T & MGs)
Heard It through the Grapevine
How Sweet It Is
I Feel Good
I Wish (S Wonder)
Just The Way You Are
Let's Stay Together (Al Green)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
My Cherie Amour
NY State Of Mind (B Joel)
Ooh Baby Baby (L. Ronstadt)
Pick Up the Pieces
Still Crazy (P Simon)
Stir It Up/One Love (Bob Marley)
Sunny
Sweet Love (Anita Baker)
That's the Way of the World
This Masquerade
Under the Boardwalk
Us & Them (Pink Floyd)
What's Goin On
What You Won't Do For Love
When A Man Loves A Woman
You Are So Beautiful (Joe Cocker)
You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman (A Franklin) +etc etc

light jazz:
Cantaloupe Island
The Chicken (Maceo Parker)
Don't Know Why (Norah Jones)
Europa (Gato Barbieri)
Just the Two of Us
Maputo (David Sanborn)
Mr Magic
Mercy Mercy
So What (Miles Davis)
Take Five (Brubeck)
Watermelon Man +many more & ORIGINALS!!

other:
New Orleans/dixieland
bossa novas --
Jobim, Stan Getz
Birthday/holiday music Horas/Bar Mitzvah tunes SPECIAL REQUESTS