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Ron Brendle

Ron Brendle, a freelance bassist in the Charlotte area since 1981, was recently recognized by Charlotte Magazine as "Best Bassist." His innovative compositions and improvisational style have also earned five awards as "Jazz Artist of the Year" by Creative Loafing Magazine. Ron was the recipient of two North Carolina Arts Council Jazz Composer Fellowship Grants, which helped to produce his CDs Hypermobility and Photograph. Ron's composition Not Forgetting was used in the motion picture The Architect and his compositions Hypermobility and Freeway were featured on two JazzSouth Sampler CDs. As a first-call bassist in the area, Ron has performed and recorded with many notable jazz artists of international stature, including Nneena Freelon, Clark Terry, Andrew Hill, Charlie Byrd, Charlie Rouse, and Mose Allison

A Tribute to the Bassists of Jazz

By RON BRENDLE

Label: LoNote
Released: 2019
Track listing: Seven Minds; Gravy Waltz; Pocket Full of Cherry; Gloria's Step; Jumpin' In; Reincarnation of a Lovebird; Ode to Tomten; Ladies in Mercedes.

Chris Brubeck at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

By MARK SULLIVAN

Chris Brubeck Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Jazz at the Bechtler Charlotte, NC October 4, 2019 The “Jazz at the Bechtler" series celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and next year is composer/pianist Dave Brubeck's centenary. So it is appropriate that Dave's son Chris was the special guest for a ...

The Ben Paterson Trio At The Jazz Corner

By MARTIN MCFIE

Ben Paterson Trio The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SC May 10-11, 2019 The Ben Paterson Trio set off with the lilting Ray Brown tune “FSR" (For Sonny Rollins). By the time they had finished the very first piece the audience was fully engaged in the performance. Paterson ...

Ron Brendle Quartet: A Tribute to the Bassists of Jazz

By MARTIN MCFIE

Ron Brendle pays his own tribute to the music of the greatest bass players, bringing the heartbeat bass line of jazz out onto the front line in his new album A Tribute to the Bassists of Jazz. Brendle continues his mission to reveal and revere the great jazz compositions by bass players by bringing them together, ...

If Love Were All

By WAYNE POWERS

Label: Kabockie Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Never Let Me Go, You've Changed, All of Me, Body and Soul, When Your Lover Has Gone, Willow Weep for Me, You Don't Know What Love Is, If Love Were All, Just In Time, East of the Sun (West of the Moon), I Only Have Eyes for You, Time After Time, Smile

Al Sergel: Alfred Sergel IVtet

By MARTIN MCFIE

The first recording of new material made by any group of musicians is always an adventure. The journey this EP made was tempered organically, over time. It started two years ago with a collection of short memo recordings on composer Al Sergel's iPhone in late night places after gigs, which were enthusiastically received by friends.

Beethoven, Barber and Vivaldi at The Jazz Corner

By MARTIN MCFIE

Beethoven, Barber and Vivaldi The Jazz Corner Hiltonhead Island, SC September 9, 2018 For half a year, this writer has been working with Mrs Lois Masteller, owner of the Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island SC, and Noel Freidline searching out a way to present classical music fully ...

Scott Sawyer: Dreamers

By DAN BILAWSKY

Creative musicians are dreamers by their very nature, but not the garden variety type; plain old dreamers simply imagine possibilities while musical dreamers imagine and realize them. They follow thoughts, concepts and ideas from inception through completion, ushering in life with their hands, hearts and minds. They sow the seeds of harmony, melody, rhythm, nuance and ...

Scott Sawyer: Dreamers

By JEFFREY UHRICH

With a warm and inviting sound, guitarist Scott Sawyer offers an intriguing and engaging collection of songs in Dreamers, his latest release on Doll Records. Sawyer's style of playing is complex yet tastefully restrained and nuanced, reminiscent of guitar legends Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery. By doing so, he allows the song itself to ...