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Ron Hart

Ron Hart enjoys playing jazz piano

About Me

Ron Hart received his BFA in Music Composition from Ohio University and continued his post-graduate work in Composition and Film Scoring at UCLA in 1978. Ron has played and recorded with a variety of music artists, beginning at age 19 with Dionne Warwick. His work as a jazz pianist continued with saxophonist Sonny Stitt, bebop guitarist Bill deArango (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker), trumpeter Harry “Sweets” Edison (Count Basie), bassist/producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock), Jorge Strunz (Strunz & Farah), South Indian violinist L. Subramaniam and many others.

Ron was included in the 1992-1993 edition of Marquis Who’s Who in Entertainment as a composer, musician and record company executive, and received the Albert Nelson Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.

“The Light Beyond the Atoms,” CD, released in 2008 on Ron’s indie label, PureBeam Music, is a suite of original music featuring Ron on grand piano with synthesizer orchestration. A selection from the album was featured on Hearts of Space online radio and can be found in their archives under Program 889 “Wistful.” Also appearing on that show are jazz greats Herbie Mann, Chick Corea, Gary Burton and Jan Garbarek.

In October, 2011 PureBeam Music released a newly recorded CD entitled “April in Paris” by Ron Hart on piano and upright bassist Gary Fitzgerald. This exciting mainstream and progressive jazz album features dynamic interplay between these two inspired musicians. A uniquely playful jazz treatment of Hit the Road, Jack as well as five other standards (April in Paris, Sidney’s Soliloquy, Night and Day, Angel Eyes and My Romance ) and five originals provide many unexpected moments, particularly in The Sandbox.

Ron and Gary appeared at the Arcosanti Jazz Festival near Prescott, Arizona in June, 2013.

Ron is currently in the process of releasing albums of original music in 2021 in the areas of classical music, pop vocal music, world music and jazz. Visit http://purebeammusic.com to learn of the release dates.