Ron Gill
Ron Gill is feeling really great about 2011. After a year of highs and lows, Ron is ready to get in shape and be performing again in the Spring.
Ron Gill’s recording, Turn Up The Quiet, with guitarist John Stein Ron has received stellar reviews nationally and internationally. Radio airplay has been equally impressive. He adapts beautifully to Stein's subtlety with a sensitivity of his own. Ron’s hushed vocal romanticism makes a brilliant couplet to Stein's accompaniment.
Ron is looking to the future. This will be the year that he produces and performs songs he’s written. “I’ve had melodies and lyrics on tape and in notebooks for years.” “During my recuperation, I realized I have some quality tunes of my own.”
Ron Gill has long enjoyed the pleasures of singing jazz and has an incredible ability to personalize and interpret diverse material. He has a depth of knowledge about jazz songs, jazz singers, and instrumentalists accumulated from a lifetime of fascinated study.
Ron has been a prominent member of the national jazz scene for many years, appearing in nightclubs, concert venues, on radio and television.
He is known for presenting the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Stevie Wonder, George Gershwin, and African American jazz composers. Ron recorded the first album comprised entirely of Billy Strayhorn’s songs, The Songs of BiIly Strayhorn, in 1997.
In addition to his singing, Ron was a long-time radio host on the WGBH 89.7fm Jazz Gallery. He is active in promoting and producing local artistic events. He is the past president of two organizations important to the jazz community, the Jazz Coalition and the New England Jazz Alliance.
Ron Gill resides in Charlotte, North Carolina and is available for interviews.
