He started out playing with Hoagy Carmichael's Teenagers, Earl Spencer, Ike Carpenter and Skinnay Ennis (1947). Lang gained some attention during his two stints with Les Brown's Orchestra (1949-50 and 1953-56) and he recorded a bit with the Dave Pell Octet in the mid-1950's. However in 1958 he became a busy studio musician in Los Angeles (often utilized by Henry Mancini) and, although he has since appeared on many records, the altoist has been mostly a nonsoloing section player whose beautiful tone is heard primarily as part of ensembles; a major loss to jazz. Ronnie Lang's only sessions as a leader were three titles for Capitol in 1955 and a full album for Tops in 1956. ~ Scott Yanow