Ram Ramirez
Roger “Ram” Ramirez was a Puerto Rican jazz pianist and composer who was born in
1913 in San Juan. He moved to New York as a child and began his professional
music career in the early 1930s. Ramirez performed with numerous jazz
luminaries, including Monette Moore, Rex Stewart, and Sid Catlett. In 1935, he
joined the band of Willie Bryant, and he toured Europe with Bobby Martin in
1937. During the first half of the 1940s, he performed with Ella Fitzgerald,
Frankie Newton, Charlie Barnet, and John Kirby, while also leading his own
ensemble. Ramirez is best known as the co-composer ...
