Ronnie Cuber
10.16.2023
12.25.1941 – 10.07.2022
Ronald Edward Cuber was an American jazz saxophonist born on Christmas Day, 1941, in New York.
When he was 18, he appeared in Marshall Brown’s Newport Youth Band at the Newport Jazz Festival. Three years later he was in Slide Hampton’s groups and spent the 1960s working with Maynard Ferguson, George Benson, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman and Lonnie Smith. During the next decade, Ronnie performed on a wealth of recordings and embraced distant ends of the woodwind family by playing flute and baritone saxophone on Eddie Palmieri’s 1973 record Sun Of Latin Music. While working with Lee Konitz in the late ’70s, he featured clarinet and soprano saxophone alongside the baritone.
