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Jazz artist who contributed to hundreds of recordings and toured as a sideman with such artists as Max Roach.His contributions to jazz over the decades were largely unrecognized, but those who did notice him often placed him in the same ranks as Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, and McCoy Tyner.He performed with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers around the same time as another great but unheralded jazz pianist, Mulgrew Miller.
BEFORE FAMEHe started performing with Roach, Freddie Hubbard, and Roy Haynes in his twenties.
PERSONAL LIFEHis family raised him in the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York.
FUN FACTSPianist Ronnie Mathews were born on Monday, birthstone is Turquoise, the seaon was Fall in the Chinese year of Pig, it is 333 days until Ronnie Mathews next birthday.
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