Ron Dewar

Ron Dewar (July 22, 1941 - January 4, 2024) was an American jazz saxophone and clarinet player who grew up in Plainfield, Illinois and worked in the Chicago area.

[5] In March 1968 he was awarded "top tenor saxophone" at the Collegiate Jazz Festival at Notre Dame with judges Oliver Nelson, Ray Brown, Robert Share, Gerald Wilson, and Dan Morgenstern.

"[7] He was a featured soloist of the University of Illinois Jazz Band in 1968 during a two month State Department sponsored tour to Ireland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Czechoslovakia.

[8] The band consisted of Don Smith (vocals/flute); Ken Ferrantino, Jim Darling, Jerry Tessin (trumpet); Cecil Bridgewater, Jim Knapp (trumpet/flugelhorn); Dave Sporny, Larry Dwyer, Frank Harmantas (trombone); Rich Rousch (bass trombone/baritone horn); John Prendergast (tuba); Howie Smith, John Wonsowicz, Ron Dewar, Larry Cangelosi, Bill Feldman (saxophone); Ron Elliston (piano); Fred Atwood (bass); Chuck Braugham (drums); Bill Fries (percussion).

[12] In the 1970s, while playing with The Chicago Hot Six with Ed "Doc" Kittrell (trumpet) and Roy Rubinstein (trombone), Ron developed a passion for the music of New Orleans.

In the eighties, Dewar and drummer Phil Gratteau, joined Brazilian artists Breno and Neusa Sauer and Paulinho Garcia in a Chicago group called Made in Brazil.