Ronnie Cuber
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Ronnie Cuber (born December 25, 1941 in New York City) is primarily a jazz baritone saxophonist. He has also played in Latin, pop, rock and blues sessions. In addition to baritone sax, he has also played soprano sax and flute, the latter on an album by Eddie Palmieri. As a leader, Cuber is known for hard bop and Latin jazz. As a side man, he has played with numerous musicians, such as B. B. King, Paul Simon, and Eric Clapton.[1] Furthermore, Cuber can be heard on Freeze Frame by the J. Geils Band.
Cuber was in Marshall Brown's Newport Youth Band in 1959, where he switched from tenor to baritone sax. His first notable work was with Slide Hampton (1962) and Maynard Ferguson (1963-1965). Then from 1966 to 1967, Cuber worked with George Benson. He was also a member of the Lee Konitz nonet from 1977 to 1979.[2] He can be heard playing in Frank Zappa's group in the mid-1970's, including the album Zappa in New York. He has been a member of the Mingus Big Band since its inception in the early 1990's. He was an off-screen musician for the movie Across the Universe
[edit] Selected discography (as a leader)
- Cuber Libre! (1976; Xanadu Records)
- The Eleventh Day Of Aquarius (1978; Xanadu Records)
- New York Jazz (1981)
- Two Brothers (1985; AMG)
- Pin Point (1985; PID)
- Passion Fruit (1985; PID)
- Live at the Blue Note (1986; ProJazz)
- Cubism (1992; Fresh Sounds)
- The Scene is Clean (1993; Milestone)
- Airplay (1994; SteepleChase)
- In a New York Minute (1996; SteepleChase)
- N.Y.C.ats (1997; SteepleChase)
- Love for Sale (with The Netherlands Metropole Orchestra) (1998, Koch)
