Life Stories: Guitarist Richard Ring was pillar of Montreal jazz scene

On the morning of July 6, guitarist Richard Ring squeezed the hand of his music partner and wife of 46 years, Ranee Lee, one last time in the palliative care ward of the Jewish General Hospital before he died.
A few hours later, Lee headlined a concert at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Ring would have had it no other way.
“He said that in performing, he would be with me,” she said. “That morning, I already had that message in the way I sang those tunes we performed t