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Scotland's
foremost bass player, Ronnie Rae Snr
who was born in Edinburgh in 1938 and began
his professional musical career with the Alex
Welsh Band in 1965. With this highly respected
outfit, Ronnie toured, broadcast and made innumerable
great albums with such luminary as Ruby Braff,
Ben Webster, Bill Coleman, Eddie Miller, Eddie
'Lockjaw' Davis, Bud Freeman, Wild Bill Davison
and Earl Hines.
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He is the most experienced and sought after jazz bassist
in Scotland having built up a vast repertoire over the
years and thus is ideal in a 'jam session' situation
as has been proved in the last seven years at the Glasgow
International Jazz Festival where he has led the 'All
Star trio' at the Festival's official Late Night Jam
Session.
Since choosing the freelance
route, Ronnie has toured and gigged with Ray Bryant,
George Chisolm, Al Cohn, Georgie Fame, Art Farmer,
Tal Farlow, Buddie De Franco, John Grffin, Barney
Kessel, Lee Konitz, Humphrey Lyttelton, Red Norvo,
Shorty Rogers, Buddy Tate, Scott Hamilton, Warren
Vache, Teddy Wilson, Louis Stewart, Spike Robinson
and many more.
Ronnie is constantly touring
and has performed at many of the top jazz festivals
around the world. These have included Sacramento,
San Diego, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Toronto, Calgary,
Vancouver, Switzerland, Jakarta (Indonesia), Bali
and Bangkok, Cork, Germany, China, Russia and of course,
Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Ronnie was Bass player in Residence
teaching at the Fife Summer Jazz School for 10 years
with Richard Michael and Scott Stroman. For the past
6 years he has taught and played on the Scottish Arts
Council, Lottery funded, Fionna Duncan Vocal Jazz
Workshops throughout Scotland.
In 1999 Ronnie received a Scottish
Arts Council Grant to enable him to take time out
of his busy work schedule to write and arrange eleven
of his own compositions. He subsequently formed a
band called "Scotia Nostra" to perform these
compositions on a concert tour of Scotland. Daughter
Cathie has written lyrics to and recorded several
of her father's songs. They are also performed by
the Rae Sisters group.
Ronnie has just released his new CD, , on Clark Tracey's Tentoten Records. The CD features Ronnie on bass, Demitri Shapko on sax, Warren Vache on cornet, Ronnie Rae jnr on piano and John Rae on drums.
To order your copy, at £12 (incl p&p), click here: . Ronnie will be performing South of the border later in the year and at the London jazz festival on 12 November. See for details of these and other performance dates.
