Bob Cranshaw
American jazz bassist (1932–2016)
Bob Cranshaw
Bob Cranshaw in 1976
Birth name Melbourne Robert Cranshaw Born (1932-12-03 ) December 3, 1932Chicago, Illinois , USDied November 2, 2016(2016-11-02) (aged 83) Manhattan , New York, USGenres Jazz Occupation Musician Instrument(s) Double bass, electric bass Formerly of Sonny Rollins
Musical artist
Melbourne Robert Cranshaw [ 1] (December 3, 1932 – November 2, 2016)[ 2] was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday of Blue Note Records to his later involvement with the Musicians Union . He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins .[ 3] Cranshaw performed in Rollins's working band on and off for over five decades, starting with a live appearance at the 1959 Playboy jazz festival in Chicago and on record with the 1962 album The Bridge .[ 4]
Cranshaw died at the age of 83 on November 2, 2016, in Manhattan , New York, from Stage IV cancer.[ 5]
Discography
As sideman
With Pepper Adams
With Nat Adderley
With Eric Alexander
With Mose Allison
With Gene Ammons
With Carole Bayer Sager
With Kenny Barron
With George Benson
With Walter Bishop Jr.
With Paul Bley
With Jonathan Butler
Introducing Jonathan Butler (Jive, 1985)
With Jaki Byard
With Donald Byrd
With Betty Carter
With Ray Charles
With Johnny Coles
With Judy Collins
With Hank Crawford
With Sonny Criss
With Frank Foster
With George Freeman
With Debbie Gibson
With Dexter Gordon
With Bunky Green
With Grant Green
With Friedrich Gulda
Ineffable (Columbia, 1965)
With Slide Hampton
With Barry Harris
With Eddie Harris
With Hampton Hawes
With Coleman Hawkins
With Jimmy Heath
With Joe Henderson
With Maurice Hines
To Nat "King" Cole with Love (Arbors , 2005)
With Johnny Hodges
With Bobby Hutcherson
With Milt Jackson
With Willis Jackson
With Antônio Carlos Jobim
With Howard Johnson and Gravity
With J. J. Johnson
With Quincy Jones
With Clifford Jordan
With Eddie Kendricks
Vintage '78 (Arista, 1978)
With Morgana King
New Beginnings (Paramount Records, 1973)
With Eric Kloss
With Irene Kral
With Yusef Lateef
With Mike Longo
With Johnny Lytle
With Junior Mance
With Barry Manilow
With Jack McDuff
With Jimmy McGriff
With Jackie McLean
With Carmen McRae
With MJT + 3
Walter Perkins ' MJT + 3 (Vee-Jay, 1959)
Make Everybody Happy (Vee-Jay, 1960)
MJT + 3 (Vee-Jay, 1960)
Message from Walton Street (Rec. 1960; Koch Jazz , 2000)
With Hank Mobley
With Grachan Moncur III
With Wes Montgomery
With James Moody
With Lee Morgan
With Oliver Nelson
With Duke Pearson
With Houston Person
With Esther Phillips
Esther Phillips Sings (Atlantic, 1966)
With Dave Pike
With Sonny Red
With Leon Redbone
With Irene Reid
Room for One More (Verve, 1965)
With Max Roach
With Sonny Rollins
The Bridge (RCA , 1962)
What's New? (RCA Victor, 1962)
Our Man in Jazz (RCA Victor, 1962)
Sonny Meets Hawk! (RCA Victor, 1963)
Now's the Time! (RCA Victor, 1964)
The Standard Sonny Rollins (RCA Victor, 1965)
Next Album (Milestone, 1972)
Horn Culture (Milestone, 1973)
Sonny Rollins in Japan (Victor, 1973)
The Cutting Edge (Milestone, 1974)
Nucleus (Milestone, 1975)
No Problem (Milestone, 1981)
Reel Life (Milestone, 1982)
G-Man (Milestone, 1986)
Falling in Love with Jazz (Milestone, 1989)
Here's to the People (Milestone, 1991)
Old Flames (Milestone, 1993)
Sonny Rollins + 3 (Milestone, 1995)
Global Warming (Milestone, 1998)
This Is What I Do (Milestone, 2000)
Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert (Rec. 2001; Milestone, 2005)
Sonny, Please (EmArcy, 2006)
Road Shows, Vol. 1 (Doxy, 2008)
Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy, 2008)
With Charlie Rouse
With Lalo Schifrin
With Shirley Scott
With Wayne Shorter
With Horace Silver
With Paul Simon
With Frank Sinatra
With Jimmy Smith
With Rod Stewart
With Billy Taylor
With Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer
With Bobby Timmons
With Stanley Turrentine
With McCoy Tyner
With Harold Vick
Watch What Happens (RCA Victor, 1968)
With Loudon Wainwright III
With Cedar Walton
With Cris Williamson
Cris Williamson (Ampex Records, 1971)
With Joe Williams
With Mary Lou Williams
With Victoria Williams
With Larry Willis
With Gerald Wilson
With Jack Wilson
With Reuben Wilson
With Kai Winding
With The Young Lions
With Joe Zawinul
References
^ "Cranshaw, Bob - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress" . Id.loc.gov . Retrieved August 21, 2021 .
^ Chinen, Nate (November 10, 2016). "Bob Cranshaw, Bassist From Jazz to Pop to Broadway, Dies at 83" . The New York Times . Retrieved August 21, 2021 .
^ Colin Larkin , ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing . p. 577. ISBN 0-85112-939-0 .
^ "The Bridge - Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins Quartet | Songs, Reviews, Credits" . AllMusic . Retrieved August 21, 2021 .
^ Gil Kaufman (November 3, 2016). "Jazz Bassist Bob Cranshaw Dies at 83" . Billboard . ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved November 3, 2016 .
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