29 Facts About Ron Holloway

Ronald Edward Holloway was born on August 24,1953 and is an American tenor saxophonist.

Ron Holloway has been a member of the Warren Haynes Band, Susan Tedeschi, Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Scott-Heron and Root Boy Slim.

Since 2014, Ron Holloway has led his own band; The Ron Holloway Band.

Ron Holloway was born to Winston and Marjorie Holloway, avid jazz fans who met while attending Howard University in Washington, DC Holloway recalls his father adding to his collection of Prestige and Blue Note jazz albums.

Ron Holloway's father favored the saxophone and trumpet-led albums and particularly enjoyed great horn soloists.

In 1974, Ron Holloway went to see Freddie Hubbard in concert and brought an audio cassette tape he'd made while rehearsing to one of Hubbard's recordings.

Ron Holloway did so and at the end of the performance Hubbard extended an open invitation to sit in with him whenever Hubbard was in town.

Rollins and Ron Holloway remained in touch afterwards, becoming good friends.

Ron Holloway approached Gillespie's dressing room and as he had done with Rollins, brought a tape with him- this time of his performance with Rollins.

In 1979 Holloway sat in with Dizzy Gillespie at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, England.

Ron Holloway continued to sit in with Gillespie well into the 1980s.

Ron Holloway was a member of several Root Boy configurations from 1977 to 1987.

Ron Holloway first met Osiris Marsh in 1979 and found their influences included bands with eclectic tastes ranging from Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and Sly and the Family Stone.

In November 1981 Ron Holloway visited a landmark DC club; Blues Alley, where he had been told jazz drummer Norman Connors would be performing.

Ron Holloway brought his horn and upon arriving spotted Connors and introduced himself.

In February 1982 Holloway played his first concert with Scott-Heron at The Bottom Line in New York City with fellow saxophonist and Amnesia Express co-founder Carl Cornwell.

Ron Holloway accepted and found himself touring the world with Gillespie, performing for audiences that varied from club capacity to popular American television shows which included the Johnny Carson and Arsenio Hall shows.

Ron Holloway played the top jazz and music festivals theaters, and concert halls around the world with Gillespie.

Ron Holloway was a member of Gillespie's quintet from June 1989 until his death on January 6,1993.

Rollins, then forwarded the recording to Fantasy Records and Ron Holloway was signed to Milestone Records, one of Fantasy's subsidiary labels, within a week's time.

Ron Holloway met Derek Trucks in 2002 aboard Trucks' tour bus just outside the entrance to Rams Head Onstage, in Annapolis, Maryland.

Ron Holloway has since performed with Trucks many times as a guest of The Derek Trucks Band and The Allman Brothers Band, toured with both the Susan Tedeschi Band and the band co-led by Trucks and Tedeschi for a couple of summers, "Soul Stew Revival".

Warren Haynes invited Ron Holloway to sit in with the band and at the close of the concert, he performed on one of the classic tunes made famous by the band; "Southbound".

Haynes invited Ron Holloway to appear with Gov't Mule afterward at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, and they performed two consecutive nights on October 27 and 28,2004 before a packed house, recording both nights.

The next year, in the summer of 2005, guitarist Jack Pearson and Ron Holloway toured with The Allman Brothers Band, filling in for an ailing Warren Haynes.

In January 2010, Gov't Mule hosted their first "Gov't Mule Island Exodus" in the same resort in Negril, Jamaica that Ron Holloway had visited with Little Feat.

Tedeschi and Ron Holloway met previously a couple of years before while guesting with her husband, Derek Trucks, at the Wanee Festival and a show at The Birchmere,.

Ron Holloway was a member of Tedeschi's band for four years.

Ron Holloway traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, and spent two days recording with the band at Ardent Studios for Honeytribe's sophomore release; Space Age Blues.