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Ronnie Wells: 1943 - 2007
A native of Washington, DC, Ronnie Wells is president and founder of the renowned Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Organization as well as director of the collaborating East Coast Jazz Festival. She has performed with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra for the Smithsonian Institution, Kennedy Center, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, and many other concert venues.
Ms. Wells has shared the stage with Billy Eckstine, Lonnie Liston Smith, Oscar Brown, Jr., Jimmy Witherspoon, Al Grey, Clark Terry and Dorothy Donegan, to name a few. She has toured and performed in concerts and at Jazz festivals throughout the world including Holland, Switzerland, France, Norway, Montreal and South America and St. Thomas USVI where she was voted "Best Virgin Island Performer for 1993." Ms. Wells has recorded on the CBS/Columbia Record label with The Widespread Jazz Orchestra, and has recordings on Jazz Karma Records, as well as several other independent record labels.
Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland since 1983, Wells is the founder of the Jazz Vocal Studies program there, and has taught and mentored many of the vocalists on the DC jazz scene today.
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Picture Added 12-25-2008 12:53 AM
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