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Ron Brendle
Portrait
Ron Brendle is jazz / rock / acoustic musician from Charlotte,
North Carolina,
United States of America. Ron Brendle has been a freelance bassist in the Charlotte
area since
1981. His innovative compositions and improvisational style have 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. His latest
recordings include projects with Loonis McGlohon, Mike Campbell, and
Frank Kimbrough. In addition to maintaining an active career as a
bassist, Ron co-founded Big Octave, which performs original compositions
and arrangements with an instrumentation of saxophone, drums, and bass:
this group enjoys an appreciative audience base in the Charlotte area.
Ron also performs numerous educational outreach concerts
each year as
part of the Charlotte Jazz Society and as bassist with Viva Klezmer. Ron
graduated from Appalachian State University with a Bachelor Degree in
music. He studied bass with Charlie Haden at the Atlantic Center for the
Arts in New Smyrna, Florida.
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