Ron McClure

A resourceful and flexible bassist, Ron McClure has thrived in hard bop, jazz-rock, and free of charge and bebop classes and bands. Among the finest top register players on either acoustic or electrical, his rhythmic abilities are huge. McClure in addition has been a dynamic educator because the early ’70s, teaching at Berklee and Long Isle University and performing workshops both nationally and internationally. He began on piano at age group five, and later on performed accordion and bass. McClure analyzed privately with Joseph Iadone and went to the Hartt College of Music, graduating in 1963. He later on studied structure with Hall Overton and Don Sebesky. McClure used Buddy Abundant with the middle-’60s, and worked well and documented with Marian McPartland, Herbie Mann, and Maynard Ferguson throughout that same period. McClure performed in Wyton Kelly’s music group in 1966, after that became a member of Charles Lloyd in 1967. The Lloyd group also included Keith Jarrett and Jack port DeJohnette, and loved unusual recognition and publicity for any past due-’60s jazz music group. These were the 1st American group to try out at a Soviet jazz event, and also made an appearance in the Fillmore, mostly of the jazz acts to try out there. McClure was a founding person in the jazz-rock music group the Fourth Method — with Michael White colored, Mike Nock, and Eddie Marshall — in 1968. They got an excellent response in the Newport and Montreux celebrations in 1970, but disbanded in 1971 after a three-year stint. Through the ’70s, McClure used Joe Henderson, Gary Burton, Mose Allison, Jack port DeJohnette, Dave Liebman, Thelonious Monk, Tony Bennett, and Jarrett. He documented with Jerry Hahn, Julian Priester, Cal Tjader, as well as the Pointer Sisters, and spent 3 years with Bloodstream, Perspiration & Tears in the middle-’70s. McClure performed and documented with George Russell, Tom Harrell, John Scofield, John Abercrombie, Tag Grey, Jimmy Madison, Adam Nussbaum, Richie Bierarch, Vincent Herring, Kevin Hayes, Expenses Stewart, and Michel Petrucciani in the ’80s and ’90s. McClure did sessions like a innovator for Ode, Bellaphon, EPC, Steeplechase, and Ken Music. He includes a few schedules available on Compact disc.