Ronnie Laws

Ronald Wayne " Ronnie " Laws ( born October 3, 1950 in Houston ) is an American smooth jazz and fusion musician (saxophone, flute, composition) and music producer.

Life and work

Laws comes from a musical family; He is a brother of Hubert Laws, founded already in high school his first band The Lightmen. After attending college, he moved to Los Angeles, where he was a member of Earth, Wind & Fire in 1970 and was involved in the Last Days In Time album. He played with Walter Bishop Jr., his brother and organist Doug Cann and recorded with Hugh Masekela. In 1975 he took, supported by Wayne Henderson and Donald Byrd, his first album Pressure Sensitive on, which is one of the classics of smooth jazz and instrumental titled " Always There " contains the Willie Bobo, Side Effect, Jeff Lorber, Wood Brass & Steel, Incognito and James Taylor was taken. On his other albums, he undertook partly excursions into the world of pop music and rhythm and blues. In the 1990s, he also took up tribute albums for Eddie Harris and the Isley Brothers.

Laws is also on recordings by Alphonse Mouzon ( The Sky Is the Limit, " Early Spring " ), Ramsey Lewis ( Tequila Mockingbird ), Arthur Adams ( Home Brew ), Howard Hewett ( This Time ), Jeff Lorber, Sister Sledge (Once in your Life ) or David Sea involved. He produced his sisters, the singers Eloise and Debra Laws.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Pressure Sensitive ( Blue Note Records, 1975)
• Fever ( 1976)
• Friends and Strangers (1977 )
• Flame ( United Artists, 1978)
• Every Generation ( 1980)
• Voices In The Water ( 2009)

Lexigraphic entries

• Ian Carr et al: Jazz Rough Guide. Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584- X.