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Ron Crotty
San Francisco, United States
Ron Crotty is credited on 341 releases across 71 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
341
Pressings credited
71
Albums
8
Decades active
35
In collections
Biography
Ron Crotty (December 31, 1929 – May 7, 2015), born Ronald O Crotty in San Francisco, raised in Oakland, and was an American jazz bassist. He became known in the late 1940s and early 1950s for work with pianists Dave Brubeck and Vince Guaraldi. He had a younger sister, Anne Crotty Dapper Wells (b.1932, d. 2010)), who died before him in Sidney, British Columbia.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
341 releases · 71 albums · active 1950–2024
- Performance · 365
- Other credits · 6
Studios: Finney Chapel, Oberlin College · College of the Pacific · Storyville, Boston · Wilshire Ebell Theatre
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Jazz At Oberlin
1953
Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals
1951
Jazz At Storyville
1953
Dave Brubeck Paul Desmond
1982
Early Fantasies
1980
At Wilshire-Ebell
1957
Jazz At The College Of The Pacific
1954
Dave Brubeck At Storyville: 1954
1954
Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals
1951
The Essential Dave Brubeck
2003
The Great Jazz Groups
1994
Jazz Summit
1972
Dave Brubeck Trio
1956
Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals
1952
Live In Concert
2001
Perdido / Stardust
1953
The Brubeck Quartet At Storyville
1953
At Pacific College
These Foolish Things / The Way You Look Tonight
Frequent collaborators
- The Dave Brubeck Trio
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Dave Brubeck
- The Dave Brubeck Octet
- Dave Brubeck Trio
- Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Dave Brubeck Octet
- Various
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