Aretha – Ronnie Ball

An inventive line on the changes of Tangerine, named for Ronnie's first wife. Lead sheets and a condensed score and parts are available for the three-horn arrangement.

Ronnie Ball

December 22, 1927 – October 3, 1984

Ronnie Ball was born in Birmingham, United Kingdom, where he played local gigs from the age of fifteen before moving to London in 1948. There he worked with Tony Kinsey and Reggie Goff's Sextet as well as leading his own trio. He worked on the Queen Mary on the transatlantic cruise run to New York from 1949 to 1951, studying with Lennie Tristano on New York stopovers. Read more...

3 songs available.