Bio

Ronnie Cuber was born in 1941 in New York City. He initially started playing jazz on the tenor sax, but switched to bari in 1959, as a member of Marshall Brown’s Newport Youth Band. He has gone on to become one of the classic faces of the bari sax not only in jazz, but across a wide spectrum of popular and contemporary music. He is best known for his stints with George Benson (producing 3 albums), his time with the J Geils Band (featured on hits such as freeze frame), and his time with the Mingus Big Band. Ronnie Cuber plays an iconic bari solo on the Mingus Big band hit ‘Moanin’. Aside from these three collaborations, Cuber has recorded dozens of albums under his own name, and been featured on hundreds more albums. He continues to play and tour regularly, with a large resume of collaborators including, Lonnie Smith, Maynard Ferguson, Paul Simon, Tom Scott, Randy Brecker, Jimmy McGriff, Idris Muhammad, Lee Konitz, Grant Green, Billy Joel, and Sam Jones.