Ron Jones & Joe Lee at Chocolate Secrets

Ron Jones is a graduate of New York University and UNT. Mr.Jones has performed at Las Vegas Bellagio, New York Blue Note, Waldorf Astoria and 55 Bar, Nashville Hard Rock and across North America. His jazz groups have performed for Taste of Dallas, as well as festivals in Ft Worth, Rockwall, Grand Prairie, and Denton.
Jones has recorded original jazz CDs, written music for CNN, recorded with Al Green and Anson Funderburgh, jammed onstage with Smokey Robinson, Mick Fleetwood and George Thorogood, and opened for Crosby Stills & Nash. Ron is alumnus of Emerald City, Granbury Live, Johnnie High Show, the Pictures, Backstreet, Random Axis, and many other local bands and shows. Ron also performs for Texas Winds Musical Outreach, and teaches at Richland College....

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Ron Jones is a graduate of New York University and UNT. Mr.Jones has performed at Las Vegas Bellagio, New York Blue Note, Waldorf Astoria and 55 Bar, Nashville Hard Rock and across North America. His jazz groups have performed for Taste of Dallas, as well as festivals in Ft Worth, Rockwall, Grand Prairie, and Denton.
Jones has recorded original jazz CDs, written music for CNN, recorded with Al Green and Anson Funderburgh, jammed onstage with Smokey Robinson, Mick Fleetwood and George Thorogood, and opened for Crosby Stills & Nash. Ron is alumnus of Emerald City, Granbury Live, Johnnie High Show, the Pictures, Backstreet, Random Axis, and many other local bands and shows. Ron also performs for Texas Winds Musical Outreach, and teaches at Richland College.

Guitar virtuoso Joe Lee is a versatile, dynamic, and award winning guitarist who has been a mainstay of the Dallas music scene for many years.
Among his awards are twice being voted #1 Jazz Guitarist in the Texas Jazz Reader’s Poll. He was a member of the jazz-fusion group Clockwork when they won #1 Jazz Group in the Dallas Observer’s Reader’s Poll two years in a row. He was also a member of Beledi when they won the Dallas Observer Music Awards #2 Avante-garde/Experimental Group.
Joe is passionate about education and the art of music. He has taught jazz guitar as a faculty member at the University of North Texas, Texas A&M-Commerce, and Richland College.
In addition to his thousands of performances ranging from solo and duo gigs to the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Joe has also performed with many Broadway touring companies, including the Lion King, the Color Purple, Motown, Mamma Mia, and Chicago. He loves the diverse styles and instruments these shows require. Among the instruments he has had to quickly learn for these are dobro, mandolin, banjo, blues harmonica, and kalimba (African thumb piano).

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