Bass player Ron Green, who moved to the Oregon Coast just last year, has been an active member of the jazz scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico for the past several years. He spent most of his playing life in the Fort Worth/Dallas area, doing club, concert and recording work. Ron's early musical influences in East Texas were the local blues, gospel and country performers, as well as his father and uncles who were big-band musicians from the 1930's into the 1950's. Ron studied French Horn at the University of North Texas, where he was active in orchestra, wind ensemble and quintet playing while learning the bass and the idioms of jazz through jam sessions and "hanging out." Ron is a member of the David Hutson Quartet and the Lincoln Pops Big Band.