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About Me

The Ron Kearns Quintet is an acoustic jazz combo that specializes in BeBop, Hard Bop and Cool Jazz. The group's style is in the manner of the old Blue Note Jazz groups. Influential recordings for this group are recordings by the Miles Davis Sextet, the Miles Davis Quintet, Horace Silver, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Art Blakey, and the Herbie Hancock Group. The Ron Kearns Quintet has five CD's out on the Foxhaven Records label that are available from amazon.com, towerrecords.com, cdbaby.com, itunes.com, napster, rhapsody and other digital outlets.. I've produced recordings for Paul Carr, Terell Stafford, Ronnie Wells, Buck Hill, Kenny Reed, Eric Byrd, Janine Gilbert Carter, Ruby Hayes, Cheryl Jones and others. I'm a retired teacher and won two educational GRAMMY Awards. Many of my former students are top performers such as Marvin "Slam G's" Hammett (Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake), Allison Miller, Bruce Williams, Ari Ambrose, Marcus Johnson, Nicole Cherry, Ben Scott, Matt Rippetoe, Adam Klipple, Keith Ghion, Jeb Patton, Halley Shoenberg, Kenji Shinagawa, Vincent Gross, Ron Finney, Paul Olenick, Buddy Jordan, Isaac Parham and many others. I am a Vandoren Performing Artist.

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Member Since: 7/25/2006
Band Website: ronkearns.com
Band Members:Ron Kearns, soprano, alto and tenor saxophone; John Jensen, trombone; Larry Brown, piano, Kent Miller, bass and Greg Holloway, drums.RON KEARNS: Ron Kearns Live at Montpelier

This is an acoustic jazz CD in the style of old Blue Note records featuring a Sax/Trombone frontline.

RON KEARNS: The Ron Kearns Quintet Live! At Blues Alley--Blues in the Alley

A live recording at one of the nation's top jazz spots which highlights the stylings of this bebop jazz combo.

RON KEARNS: Looking Back, Stepping Forward

This is an acoustic jazz CD in the old Blue Note Records style.

RON KEARNS and FRIENDS INTROSPECTIVE

This is an acoustic jazz CD in the old Blue Note Records style.

Influences: All BeBop, Hard Bop and Cool Jazz performers past and present but especially Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt, Lou Donaldson, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.
Sounds Like: Early Herbie Hancock Group, Cannonball Adderley Quintet and Horace Silver Group but mostly like The Ron Kearns Quintet.
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Record Label: Foxhaven Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Frank Morgan

One of the most innovative and purest voices on Jazz saxophone died December 14, 2007. Frank Morgan was one of the last of the old masters of the alto saxophone left. I had the opportunity to headline...
Posted by Ron Kearns Quintet on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:27:00 PST

ALPHA PHI ALPHA

For 36 of Alpha Phi Alpha's 101 years I've been a brother, Gamma Omicron 1971. Any brothers in the house hit me back. Check out the Black and Old Gold horn!
Posted by Ron Kearns Quintet on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:26:00 PST

Washington Post CD Review

Check out this review of my new CD from the July 20, 2007, Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07 /19/AR2007071900659.html...
Posted by Ron Kearns Quintet on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:24:00 PST

Ronnie Wells Tribute

July 23, 2007 The Jazz Community Remembers Ronnie Wells D.C.'s jazz community lost its matriarch when Ronnie Wells (pictured right) succumbed to lung cancer in March 2007. One of D.C.'s premier jazz...
Posted by Ron Kearns Quintet on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:53:00 PST