Guitarist Ron Jackson @ Brooklyn Consevatory, March 14

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Who: Ron Jackson’s “Flubby Dubby” featuring Ron Jackson (Guitar), Greg Lewis (Hammond Organ), Gordon Lane (Drums)
What:MusicNOW! At the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
When: Saturday, March 14 2009 at 8:00 PM
Where:Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 58 7th avenue, Brooklyn. NY
Cost: $10 / 5. Go to Zerve ticket services at 212.209.3370 or through our website at www.bqcm.org.

Ron Jackson presents trio “Flubby Dubby” featuring Hammond organist Greg Lewis and drummer Gordon Lane. Produced by guitar great and mentor Melvin Sparks, Ron's new CD "Flubby Dubby", Roni Music, with his Hammond organ group is recorded live featuring his soul-jazz originals and arrangements. "Flubby Dubby" is reminiscent of the funky James Brown groups with saxophonist Maceo Parker and the group Soul Live.

Ron Jackson – Guitar

“Genius arrangements, precise playing and pure emotion” – WDBM FM/Jazz Spectrum

Ron Jackson has performed and recorded in over 20 countries as a bandleader and ensemble performer, and is well established in the international jazz scene. Ron's style of guitar playing and compositions is a blend of jazz, and other American styles such as soul, rhythm and blues, pop.

Ron's jazz group appears frequently in New York City and has performed at such notable clubs as The Blue Note, Fat Tuesday, Iridium and Birdland. He has also appeared at the New Orleans Heritage and Jazz Festival, The Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, The North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland, the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland, the Kiama and Montsalvat festivals in Australia, the Berlin Jazz Festival, and the Grimsby and Edinburgh Festivals in the UK. He has also toured and performed in Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Austria, Canada, and Japan.

Ron has also toured the US with fellow guitarists Larry Coryell, Peter Leitch, Jack Wilkins, David Gilmore, Peter Bernstein and Russell Malone; pianists John Hicks and Kenny Drew Jr.; and drummers Winard Harper and Carl Allen. He also toured with the Boys Choir of Harlem; MOR Thaim's "Drums of Fire" and Pucho and The Latin Soul Brothers and David Krakauer's "Klezmer Madness." As well as being an accomplished jazz guitarist, Ron is also very active on the Broadway and studio scene in New York, having performed in the pit orchestras of such shows as "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk”, “The Life," "Rent," "Saturday Night Fever", "Kat and the Kings", "Fosse”, “Harlem Song.