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Ronnie Lang (sometimes spelled Ronny; born July 24, 1927) is an American jazz alto saxophonist. His professional début was with Hoagy Carmichael's Teenagers. He also played with Earle Spencer (1946), Ike Carpenter, and Skinnay Ennis (1947). Lang gained attention during his two tenures with Les Brown's Orchestra (1949–50 and 1953–56). He recorded with the Dave Pell Octet in the mid-1950s. During this time he attended Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences studying music and woodwinds. In 1958 he became a prolific studio musician in Los Angeles, often employed by Henry Mancini, and he played the iconic sax melodic line in Bernard Herrmann's score for the movie Taxi Driver (1976). Lang also recorded with Pete Rugolo (1956), Bob Thiele (1975), and Peggy Lee (1975).

Partial discography

With Sammy Davis Jr

• It's All Over but the Swingin' (Decca, 1957)

With Ted Nash

• Peter Gunn (Crown, 1959)

With Pete Rugolo

• Music for Hi-Fi Bugs (EmArcy, 1956)
• Out on a Limb (EmArcy, 1956)
• The Original Music of Thriller (Time, 1961)

With His All Stars

• Modern Jazz (Tops, 1958)

Television soundtracks

With the Vince Guaraldi Sextet

• It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
• You're in Love, Charlie Brown (1967)

Notes

1. Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 99.
2. Feather, Leonard (1984). The Encyclopedia of Jazz. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306802140.

References

• Bruyninckx, Walter (1979). 60 Years of Recorded Jazz, 1917–1977. Mechelen, Belgium. OCLC 6436260.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Kernfeld, Barry Dean; Sadie, Stanley (1988). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-0935859393.
• Kinkle, Roger D. (1974). The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 1900–1950. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House Publishers. ISBN 978-0870002298.
• Room, Adrian (2010). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins (5th ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 274. ISBN 978-0786457632.

• 1927 births
• Living people
• American jazz alto saxophonists
• American male saxophonists
• Musicians from Los Angeles
• 21st-century American saxophonists
• Jazz musicians from California
• 21st-century American male musicians
• American male jazz musicians
• Earle Spencer Orchestra members
• Los Angeles State College alumni