Ron Crotty
Ronald O. Crotty (born April 2, 1929 in San Francisco , † May 7, 2015 in Berkeley ) was an American jazz musician ( double bass ).
Live and act
As a child, Crotty first learned to play the violin and sang in the choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. While attending Oakland High School, he switched to the double bass. In the 1940s he performed with a bebop band with trumpeter Al Molina; he also played with Cal Tjader and Tjader's future wife Pat Bandettini. After studying composition with Darius Milhaud at Mills College , he played in the octet by Dave Brubeck , with which the first recordings were made in 1946. After two years of military service he worked again with Brubeck, first in his trio, then in the quartet that the pianist and Paul Desmond founded in 1953 ( Jazz at Oberlin 1953). Under his own name he made the LP Modern Music from San Francisco in 1955 for Fantasy Records , on which Vince Guaraldi and Eddie Duran participated. An alcohol disease interrupted his career; in the 1970s he worked as a gardener in the Synanon program. It was not until the 1990s that he was active again as a jazz musician and performed with local musicians at the Oakland Museum. In 2009 Crotty released the album Crotty Corman and Phipps (Auraline), with Frank Phipps (bass trumpet, euphonium) and Tony Corman (guitar). In the field of jazz he was involved in 21 recording sessions between 1946 and 2008. Crotty was influenced by Jimmy Blanton and Ray Brown .
Web links
- Ron Crotty at Allmusic (English)
- Ron Crotty at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ron Crotty at Discogs (English)
- ^ Obituary in Rifftides
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 24, 2015)
- ^ Portrait in The Monthly
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crotty, Ron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crotty, Ronald O. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (double bass) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 2015 |
| Place of death | Berkeley |