Ronnie Singer

Ronnie Singer
Background information
Born ~1929
United States
Died ~1953 (aged 24)
United States
Genres Jazz
Bebop
Cool jazz
Occupations Guitarist, artist
Instruments Guitar
Years active late '40s - ~1953
Website ronniesinger.blogspot.com

Ronnie Singer was an American jazz guitarist in Chicago and New York City during the late 1940s and early 1950s. His talent has been compared to Jimmy Raney[1] and his style noted as influential on other jazz musicians.[2] At the age of 24, Singer committed suicide with his wife in New York.[3] According to Lou Levy, Singer "was one of the great losses... He would have been one of the all-time greats."[3]

References

  1. ^ Jazz Forum (International Jazz Federation) (118): 40. 1983. 
  2. ^ Ingram, Adrian (August 2001). A Concise History of the Electric Guitar. Mel Bay Publications. p. 31. ISBN =0786649828. 
  3. ^ a b Gitler, Ira (May 1987). Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s. Oxford University Press. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0195050703. 

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