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Ricky Ford Quartet at The Side Door Jazz Club

Courtesy of Chris Beaudry | Posted on March 21, 2017

Where

The Side Door Jazz Club
85 Lyme St
Old Lyme, CT
Map
(860) 434-2600

When

Sat, April 1, 2017
8:30 pm

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Musicians

Ricky Ford
saxophone, tenor
Jerome Harris
guitar, electric

About

Ricky Ford was born March 4,1954 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He started to play drums, then changed to tenor saxophone at the age of 15, inspired by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Ran Blake heard him playing in a Boston Club and persuaded him to study music at the New England Conservatory. (Blake later invited him to play on several albums too, including Rapport, Short Life Of Barbara Monk and That Certain Feeling). In 1974 Ford joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the leadership of Mercer Ellington and in 1976 he replaced George Adams in the Charles Mingus group, recording on Three Or Four Shades of Blue and Me Myself An Eye...

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