| LC control no. | n 78011829 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ford, Ricky |
| Variant(s) | Ford, Richard Allen, 1954- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1954-03-04 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Affiliation | New England Conservatory of Music Duke Ellington Orchestra Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey) Toucy Jazz Festival (Yonne, France) |
| Profession or occupation | Jazz musicians Saxophonists College teachers |
| Found in | Loxodonta Africana [SR] p1977 (a.e.) label (Ricky Ford) container (jazz tenor saxophonist and composer) New Grove dict. of jazz (Ford, Ricky (Richard Allen); b. Mar. 4, 1954, Boston; tenor saxophonist) African American National Biography, accessed January 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Ford, Ricky; jazz musician, saxophonist; born 04 March 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; studied at the New England Conservatory; made recording debut with Ran Blake (1973); part of the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington (1974-1976); worked with groups led by Mingus' longtime drummer Dannie Richmond, Lionel Hampton, George Russell, Beaver Harris, Mingus Dynasty, and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (1978-1985); became an established hard-bop and post-bop stylist with impressive technique; excelling as leader and performing straight-ahead jazz and recording 19 albums (1977-2003); professor at Bilgi University in Istanbul (2001-2006); founded the Toucy Jazz Festival in Yonne, France (2009)) |
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