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Genres
  
Jazz

Role
  
Trombonist

Name
  
Ron Westray

Associated acts
  
Mingus Big Band

Instruments
  
Trombone


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Birth name
  
Ronald Kenneth Westray, Jr.

Born
  
13 June 1970 (age 53) Columbia, South Carolina United States (
1970-06-13
)

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, composer, educator

Labels
  
Blue Canoe, New Jazz Renaissance Records, Atlantic

Education
  
South Carolina State University, Eastern Illinois University

Music group
  
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Albums
  
Magisteria, Bone Structure, Portraits By Ellington, Live in Cuba, Portrait in Seven Shades

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Ronald Kenneth Westray, Jr. (born June 13, 1970 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American jazz trombonist, composer, and educator. He holds a B.A. from South Carolina State University and a Master of Arts degree from Eastern Illinois University. He has played with Marcus Roberts, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (since its inception in 1993), and has been a regular member of the Mingus Big Band. In 2005 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2009 he was appointed to the Oscar Peterson Chair in jazz performance at York University.

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Discography

  • Westray Digs In (New Jazz Renaissance, 2002)
  • Medical Cures for the Chromatic Commands of the Inner City (Blue Canoe, 2008)
  • Ron Westray/Thomas Heflin Live from Austin (Blue Canoe, 2011)
  • Jimi Jazz (Blue Canoe, 2014)
  • Magisteria (Blue Canoe, 2015)

    • As sideman

    With Wycliffe Gordon

  • Bone Structure (Atlantic, 1996)

    • References

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