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Ron Sunshine
Jazz / Blues / R&B

"Swinging Music with Soul from NYC"

New York, New York
United States

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Last Login:  7/26/2008
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Member Since7/19/2006
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RON SUNSHINE: Deluxe
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RON SUNSHINE & THE SMOKING SECTION: Pick It Up
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RON SUNSHINE: Candy
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RON SUNSHINE AND FULL SWING: Straight Up! (and then some)
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RON SUNSHINE: Soul Drug
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Ron Sunshine -- vocals, harmonica
Craig Dreyer -- tenor sax;
Matt Ray -- piano;
Tom Pietrycha -- bass;
Jason Pharr -- drums;
Al Street -- guitar;
Queen Esther -- vocals;
Sarah Tolar -- vocals;
Aria Hendricks -- vocals;
Brian Pareschi -- trumpet;
Matt Hong -- alto sax;
Dan Block -- tenor sax/clarinet;
Carl Maraghi -- baritone sax;
Wayne Goodman -- trombone;
Kyle Koehler -- organ;
Brian Charette -- organ;
Matt Chertkoff -- guitar;
Kenny Rampton -- trumpet;
Isaac Ben Ayala -- piano;
Rudy Petschauer -- drums;
David Berger -- arranger, éminence grise;
Andy Farber -- tenor sax/arranger;
...and more!

Influences

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Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Stevie Wonder, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Lou Rawls, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Smedley Butler, Sammy Davis Jr, The Hot Dog Rock Band, Parliament-Funkadelic, Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Young, Martin Scorcese, The Meters, Howard Zinn, Lockjaw Davis, Tom Waits, EWF, The Coen Brothers, Johnny Hartman, Noam Chomsky, Art Blakey, Jack McDuff, Bob Dylan, Coleman Hawkins, Lou Reed, William S. Burroughs, Cootie Williams, Dr. John, Francis Ford Coppola, Edgar Cayce, Sly Stone, Fatha Hines, Al Green, Mike Malloy, Ella Fitzgerald, Danny Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Hank Ballard, Charles Brown, Groove Holmes, The Turtles, Frank Zappa, Zecharia Sitchin, and here I am listening intently to the great Sun Ra: Sun Ra laying some knowledge on me.  1987 NYC.
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Sounds Like

Here is Ron performing at Lincoln Center:

I am a harmonica player, too. Here is a little harmonica:

Ron Sunshine & his Orchestra with the Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen classic, as performed by Sinatra with the Basie Band (Andy Farber arranged this adaptation):
You Make Me Feel So Young

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James Brown never forgot his Blues and R&B Roots. Brian Charette on organ, Al Street on guitar, Jason Pharr on drums. We had a great time, and want to thank the people who packed the dance floor in the lounge Dec 27. We felt you, and we dug you. Long live the Godfather. Oh yeah, and thanks to Will for filming us. 12-27-06 at the Supper Club, NYC.

This is what happens when I try to play harmonica at home:

Ron plays the blues:

"COME FLY WITH ME" Video Taken by our friend Will Luong 2-10-08 in NYC:

Record LabelGolden Bug Records
Type of LabelIndie








   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 18 2008 8:30P
Mitchell’s Grill & Bar Brooklyn, New York
Jul 26 2008 8:00P
Club 412 New York, New York
Aug 1 2008 9:30P
Swing 46 New York, New York
Aug 8 2008 9:30P
Swing 46 New York, New York
Aug 22 2008 8:30P
Mitchell’s Grill & Bar Brooklyn, New York
Aug 23 2008 8:00P
Private Party Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Ron Sunshine

Entry in the Jazz Encyclopedia Being compiled by Professor Lewis Porter of Rutgers University for Routledge Books.

Sunshine, Ron (Ronald S.), vocalist, jazz and blues harmonica player, songwriter, bandleader, producer; born in Denver, CO. Grew up in Denver, graduating from Manual High School. Father Irwin played trumpet in East Denver High School and University of Colorado (Boulder) big bands in the '40s. Ron's four older sisters performed as an a capella vocal group and won local awards. Music was always very much a part of the household, with sister JoAnne in particular a strong instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. One of JoAnne's songs, "Wasted," appears on Ron's fifth CD, DELUXE which was released in 2003. When his father bought him the "Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz" when Ron was about 14, the youngster was hooked for good.

Ron's first instrument was a drum set, which he received at the age of 5. He performed in small combos in elementary school, Jr. high school, and high school, as a drummer and then as a vocalist. While attending Columbia University in New York City, where he moved in 1981, Ron took up the harmonica. He graduated from Columbia College with a BA in English in 1985. While there, he studied writing with Albert Murray, Kenneth Koch, Arnold Weinstein and others. He studied music with Jose Luis Greco and Joe Donovan. Other professors included Amiri Baraka, James Shenton, and Edward W. Said. He continued studying music theory at the New School for Social Research in 1990. Ron and his wife, Feather have two daughters.

Ron's first professional experience in New York was as a sideman playing harmonica with blues guitarist Brian Kramer in 1988-89, at such venues as Tramps, Sun Mountain, Kenny's Castaways, the Bitter End, etc. In 1989 Ron traveled to Paris and began performing on the streets of France and Switzerland with Dan Fitzgerald and the Lost & Wandering Blues and Jazz Band. Here--as he fell in with such musicians as Madeleine Peyroux, Joe Flood, Charlie Hunter, Calder Spanier, Christian Fernandez, Belinda Blair, Billy Collins and others--he began to sing in the jazz tradition, and to study the canon of the Great American Songbook.

He returned to New York in 1990 to form two of his own groups, one concentrating on funky R&B originals (the Smoking Section), and the other on '30s and '40s jump swing and standards (Full Swing). These groups performed constantly in NYC and around the world during the 90s, and up to the present time in such venues as Tramps (where Full Swing performed a regular Friday slot from 1990-1994 opening for such greats as Charles Brown, Jay McShann, Wilson Pickett, many others), Windows on the World, the Supper Club, Irving Plaza, the Beacon Theater, Roseland Ballroom, Midsummer Night's Swing (Lincoln Center), The New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts, the Bermuda Jazz Festival, the Stockholm Jazz Festival, Club Kristiania (Oslo), St Gervais Jazz (Switzerland), the Red Bank (NJ) Jazz and Blues Festival, Celebrate Brooklyn (at the Prospect Park Bandshell), Musikfest (Bethlehem, PA), The Supper Club, The Roxy (Boston), The Five Spot (Philadelphia), Louisiana Community Bar & Grill, and many others.

Band members have included drummers James Wormworth IV (the Conan O'Brien Show, Erskine Hawkins, Johnny Copeland, many others), Charlie Caldarola, the late Howie Wyeth (Bob Dylan), and Jason Pharr; saxophonists Joe Hrbek, Lee Greene, Craig Dreyer & Anders Gaardmand; pianists Rick Germanson (Craig Handy, Louis Haynes, Lonnie Plaxico), Eddie Swanston (Louis Armstrong, Art Blakey, Ike Quebec, many others), Matt Ray, Paul Tillotson, Doug Petty, Jon Dryden; guitarists Joe Flood, Dan Hovey and Bruce Edwards (Sun Ra, James Carter), Jono Manson; bassists Andres Villamil, Jim Greene, Andy Hess (Jon Scofield, Gov't Mule), David Santos (Billy Joel, Elton John, Neville Brothers), Cliff Schmitt, Kelly Friesen, Dom Richards, Reggie Workman (one gig, but it was a great one), Jerry Dugger; trumpeter and arranger Tim Ouimette (Ray Charles, Ray Baretto), Kenny Rampton, Guido Gonzalez; tap dancer and drummer Herbin Van Cayselle (Urban Tap), and others.

In 2006 Ron formed an octet to handle his regular appearances at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center(NYC). The book features the arranging talents of David Berger (Julliard School. Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra), Andy Farber, and others, and features songs associated with Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, as well as Ron's original songs. Musicians have included Matt Hong, Dan Block, Kurt Bacher, Ryan Keberle, Mark Hynes, Jeff Bush, Carl Maraghi, Brian Pareschi, Wayne Goodman, Tom Pietrycha, Matt Ray, Isaac Ben Ayala, Jimmy Madison, Rudy Petschauer, along with vocalists Aria Hendricks, Queen Esther, Sarah Tolar, and others.

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Junior Vegas and The Bad Cats





Jul 17 2008 8:49 PM

love your stuff
Brian Charette





Jun 27 2008 11:09 PM

hot gig yo.
floods was haught
Brian Charette





Jun 28 2008 1:47 PM

the alpha sunshine's style is much respected
Joey Miserable and The Worms





Jul 9 2008 5:05 PM

Tara





Jul 3 2008 9:10 PM





Brian Charette





Jul 6 2008 11:08 AM

was great to see you and feather yesterday-bc
Pete Levin





Jun 15 2008 12:24 PM

Hi Ron.

I hope you'll forgive a bit of shameless merchandising. My new CD is out.
Still doin' the Jazz thing, but this is definitely not your father's organ trio!

CD Baby
's got it; there are samples, links & digital downloads on my Myspace page.

Best wishes,

Pete


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Jun 10 2008 9:30 AM

I've Fallen, And I Can't Help But Get DOWN.
The Nick Diaz Experiment





May 28 2008 11:02 AM

thx much man, hope all is well.
n
Lil' Cliff & the Cliffhangers





May 23 2008 9:49 PM

Ron,

Thank you for the great swinging sounds tonight. we had a great time.
Hopefully see you on the 6th of June.

Richard Street

Ricky at the Oyster Bay Blues Festival
Alex Salzman





May 20 2008 6:18 AM

Hey, Ron...thanks for the add.
All the best,
Alex.
Dwight S. Huggins





May 18 2008 2:43 PM

RS!

Cheers champ, an honour having you here, be well, and do enjoy the library/blog's contents, here's hoping that it'll inspire you, as your creative spirit has inspired mine, sweet dreams then...

DSH
=^..^=
I, STORM (musician/DJ)





May 10 2008 4:32 AM



Blast from the Past ('92) --
THE AUTHORITY @ Nitingale Bar






.
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more to come ;-)



Sam Simon





Apr 29 2008 11:22 AM

thanks for the add
love your style
Cool Runnings,Sam
Pennsylvania for Obama





Apr 22 2008 11:33 AM

Go VOTE already...!

You can look up your polling place HERE.


Then...

Lil' Cliff & the Cliffhangers





Apr 18 2008 3:56 PM

Ron,
Thanks so much for the add.
Much appreciated
Lil' Cliff and the Cliffhangers

Vintage Cliffhangers
The Holy Trip





Mar 31 2008 7:54 AM

Hi Mr. Sunshine,
Kind of you to become a friend to the Holy Trip, cause I dig your living music..with all nice musicians.
So I hope you can keep on..and on..
Bo/Sweden
Heather Eve





Mar 28 2008 12:32 AM