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Ron English

Born: January 3, 1941

Jazz guitarist Ron English has enjoyed a long and varied music career, with roots wide and deep in blues, Broadway, bebop, avant-garde, funk, Motown, and gospel.

Ron got started playing standards for dances and receptions around his native Lansing, where his father was a well-known guitar teacher, then graduated to a sort of roadhouse jazz and blues mix, in the bands of drummer Bud Spangler and Jackson tenor man Benny Poole, and various organ trios, including his long time employer and collaborator Lyman Woodard. Along the way, for his friends, Bob Baldori and the Woolies, Ron contributed the guitar solo on a classic blues rock “nugget,” the Woolies’ 1967 cover of Bo Diddly’s Who Do You love?

He joined the Detroit Contemporary 5, led by trumpeter Charles Moore, in the mid-60s

John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop

By Bennie Maupin

Label: Strut / Art Yard
Released: 2022
Track listing: John Sinclair: Introduction; Donald Byrd: Cristo Redentor; Donald Byrd: Blackjack; Detroit Contemporary 4: EFFI; Detroit Contemporary 4: The Promise: Detroit Contemporary 4: Three Flowers; Bennie Maupin Quartet: Water Torture; Ron English: Bees; Teddy Harris: Passion Dance; Lyman Woodard: Déjà Vu; Lyman Woodard Organization: Help Me Get Away.

Notable Songs by 21st Century Women

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 25, 2018

In this episode of A Broad Spectrum we feature some gorgeous new releases and we give birthday shout outs to Louis Armstrong, Jeri Southern, Hank Jones, Kevin Mahogany, Josh Nelson, Tony Bennett, Connie Converse, Kat Edmonson, KJ Denhart, Terri Lyne Carrington, Aaron Weinstein, and Baby Jane Dexter among others, focusing on some notable songs written by ...

Devotions

By Ron English

Label: Detroit Radio Recordings, Inc.
Released: 2007