Album Notes

“…this is an album I listened to a great deal, I'm enjoying it.”
Ross Porter (CBC- After Hours)

“Ron Davis is] very sensitive to melody with his flowing, uplifting lyrical way with the piano reminiscent of Tommy Flanagan, Vince Guaraldi or Ahmad Jamal... dazzling performing ambience... [Soloduotrio] is a very solid, satisfying 51 minutes of piano jazz and is recommended.”
Dave Nathan (www.allaboutjazz.com)

Ron is active on the Toronto jazz scene. The Ron Davis Trio trio was recently named “One of Canada's best undiscovered jazz groups” by CBC's Dreamstream (www.dreamstream.ca). The trio also accompanies three of Canada's foremost jazz singers– Sara Latendresse, Jennifer Ryan and Melissa Stylianou – in their three-part venture Eight to the Bar.

Ron has played at a wide variety of events and venues including the Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival, the Markham Jazz Festival, the Barrie Jazz Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival, the Cabbagetown Festival, the Montreal Bistro, The Glenn Gould Theatre, Much More Music, Gate 403, the Orillia Jazz Festival and many others.

Since the release of Ron's CD soloduotrio, listeners have heard it on CBC, Jazz-FM 91.1, CKLN and other stations. The Sun newspaper chain's John Sakamoto placed soloduotrio at no. 6 on his Anti-Hit List for Oct. 31. It held the #3 spots on HMV's independent charts (Nov. 10/01) and jazzpromo.com (Dec/01). Fall 2002 saw the release of the cd So Much featuring The Ron Davis Trio with brilliant singer Lori Cullen. Top US retailer cdbaby.com chose So Much as a “jaw dropping” front page choice!

Ron has had other lives. He became a lawyer in 1984 and practiced until 2002. In 1993 he got his PhD in French linguistics at the University of Toronto where he was Assistant Professor for several years.