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Ronnie Wells: Live at 10th Annual East Coast Jazz Festival

Read "Live at 10th Annual East Coast Jazz Festival" reviewed by Dave Nathan


This album captures two related events. The first seven tracks are Ronnie Wells' concert at the 10th Annual East Coast Jazz Festival which is a source of funds for Wells' Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Fund, which she has been active with for years. On this portion of the program, she is backed by some of Washington, D. C.'s top musicians with Aaron Graves taking the place of long time piano confederate, Ron Elliston. The last four tracks are a part ...

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Jazz Singer Ronnie Wells Dies at Age 64

Jazz Singer Ronnie Wells Dies at Age 64

Source: All About Jazz

The Washington Post Jazz Singer Ronnie Wells-Elliston, 64 Friday, March 9, 2007; Page B07 Ronnie Wells-Elliston, 64, a versatile jazz balladeer and educator in the Washington area for more than three decades who co-founded the East Coast Jazz Festival in Montgomery County in 1992, died March 7 at Holy Cross Hospital. She had lung cancer. Mrs. Wells-Elliston formed the East Coast Jazz Festival with her husband, pianist Ron Elliston, in response to area schools' reducing or ...

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