Pianist, educator. Born in Centralia, Illinois; died February 25, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina.
Co-founder, with wife Ronnie Wells, of the East Coast Jazz Festival. Taught at University of Maryland.
Bibliography
Joyce, Mike. “Ronnie Wells: Top of the Class.” Washington Post. October 19, 1984.
Joyce, Mike. “A Ronnie ‘For You’: Be Her Little Baby.” Washington Post. February 23, 1990, sec. On the Town. http://search.proquest.com/docview/140348753/abstract/E420715161304E4DPQ/347.
Joyce, Mike. “Ronnie Wells and Ron Elliston: "Here I Am" Keter Betts: ‘Bass Buddies and Blues.’” Washington Post, February 12, 1999.
Joyce, Mike. “Ronnie Wells with Ron Elliston.” Washington Post, February 18, 2005.
Stokes, W. Royal. “Limelight.” Washington Post, October 2, 1983.
Wells, Ronnie, and Ron Elliston. Interview. Interview by W. Royal Stokes, n.d. W. Royal Stokes Collection. Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Accessed February 29, 2012.
“Ron Elliston, Pianist, U-Md. Professor.” Washington Post, March 13, 2015.
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