Ron Horton

Ron Horton (born 1960 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American jazz trumpeter.

Biography[]

Horton attended Berklee College of Music from 1978 to 1980. In 1982, he moved to New York City, where, as a longtime member of Jane Ira Bloom's band (1983-2000), he became an integral part of the jazz scene. He has also been a member of the New York Jazz Composers Collective since 1992 and the Herbie Nichols Project under Frank Kimbrough and Ben Allison. From 1998 to 2003 he was also a member of Andrew Hill's sextet, on his album Dusk (1999).

Horton worked as a sideman with Ted Nash, Allan Chase, Bill Mays, Jon Gordon, Andy Laster, Phillip Johnston, Matt Wilson, Roberta Piket, Rez Abbasi, Walter Thompson, , Jamie Baum, , , John McKenna, Michael Jefry Stevens, Peggy Stern and others. In 1999, he released his first CD as a bandleader.

Horton also has given master classes and workshops at The New School in New York, the New England Conservatory of Music, the University of North Carolina, and Oxford University.

Discography[]

• Genius Envy with Jane Ira Bloom, John McKenna, Frank Kimbrough, Ben Allison, , 1999,
• Subtextures with Frank Kimbrough, Ben Allison, Matt Wilson, 2002
• Everything In a Dream with , Tony Malaby, Frank Kimbrough, Michael Sarin, , , 2005, Fresh Sound

With Jane Ira Bloom

• Art and Aviation (Arabesque, 1992)

Further reading[]

• "Ron Horton". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, 2001, ed. Barry Kernfeld.