Ronnie Cuber is a baritone sax player strong enough to bring out the lyricism of the weighty instrument. While he plays traditional jazz in the style of Pepper Adams and Nick Brignola, Cuber also has led Latin sessions and appeared on dozens of pop recordings as an in-demand sideman. Cuber was born on Christmas, 1941, in New York. When he was 18, he appeared in Marshall Brown's Newport Youth Band at the Newport Jazz Festival. Three years later he was in Slide Hampton's groups and spent the 1960s working with Maynard Ferguson, George Benson, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman and Lonnie Smith. During the next decade, Cuber performed on a slew of recordings and embraced distant ends of the woodwind family by playing flute and baritone sax on Eddie Palmieri's 1973 record, Sun Of Latin Music. While working with Lee Konitz in the late '70s, Cuber featured the clarinet and soprano sax alongside the baritone in his arsenal. He recorded his own Cuber Libre in 1976 and released a succession of traditional jazz records in the '80s and '90s, such as Live At The Blue Note and The Scene Is Clean (Milestone). In the 1980's he was a member of the Saturday Night Live Band for 5 years. The slew of pop musicians who have recruited easy-going Cuber for sessions include Chaka Kahn, Paul Simon. In 1998, Cuber played on and arranged The Three Baritone Saxophone tribute disc, Plays Mulligan on Dreyfus Records, and has arranged and recorded on 6 Mingus Big Band cd's for Dreyfus Records
LIONEL HAMPTON WITH RONNIE CUBER SOLO - FLYING HOME (1965)
Ronnie Cuber-saxophone
Michael Formanek-bass
Bobby Broom-guitar
Ben Perowsky-drums
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RONNIE CUBER - LOVE FOR SALE (1998)
Ronnie Cuber (baritone saxophone); Dolf Van Der Linden, Rob Pronk (conductor).The Netherlands Metropole Orchestra includes: Leo Van Oostrom, Marc Scholten (saxophone); Jan Oosthof, Jan Hollander (trumpet); Bart Van Lier, Paul Woesthuis (trombone); Martin Van Den Berg (bass trombone); Roel Koster (French horn); Friederike Darius, Janine Abbas (flute); Martin De Ruiter, Willem Luijt (oboe); Erno Olah, Rami Koch (violin); Aimee Versloot, Mieke Honingh (viola); Hans Bonsel, Olof Groesz (cello); Rosetty De Ruiter-Verwoerdt (harp); Hans Vroomans, Cor Bakker (piano, synthesizers); Lex Bolderdijk (guitar); Erik Winkelmann (acoustic bass); Jan Hollestelle (electric bass); Eddy Koopman, Herman Rieken (drums, percussion).
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REIN DE GRAAFF TRIO - BARITONE EXPLOSION! (1995)
01-Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
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