{"id":7940,"date":"2016-11-05T17:31:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T00:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2016-11-05T17:31:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T00:31:39","slug":"bob-cranshaw-1932-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/11\/bob-cranshaw-1932-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Cranshaw, 1932-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images-e1478392201741.jpeg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"210\" height=\"191\" \/>Bassist Bob Cranshaw succumbed to bone cancer yesterday at his home in New York City. He was 83. He may be best remembered as Sonny Rollins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bassist for more than half a century, but Cranshaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career also included mainstay work with Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Kai Winding, Wes Montgomery, Duke Pearson, Mose Allison, Oliver Nelson, and dozens of other musicians in the top ranks of jazz.<\/p>\n<p>From a 2005 <em>Rifftides<\/em> post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sonny Rollins, for reasons unclear to me, prefers the electric instrument over what I irritate some of my bassist acquaintances by calling the real bass. Cranshaw uses the electric bass when he works with Rollins. He is one of the few players who comes close to persuading me that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hearing the real thing when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playing electric. Nonetheless, as well as he works that deception with Rollins, I get full satisfaction from his sound, attack and feeling when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the good old standup, wooden, contrabass. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more profundo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this video from Dizzy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Club in New York early this year, Cranshaw has an extended acoustic bass solo on Benny Golson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Killer Joe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The band is drummer Joe Farnsworth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quartet with Jeremy Pelt playing trumpet and Harold Mabern piano.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bLJ7ecpnzGY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, for Cranshaw on electric bass, we go to Sonny Rollins in August, 1986 in a concert in suburban New York. There may be no better illustration of what Rollins loved about Cranshaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playing\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddrive, energy, harmonic perfection, complete involvement in the music. This is Sonny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153G-Man\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with Cranshaw; Clifton Anderson, trombone; Mark Soskin, piano; and Marvin \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smitty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smith on drums. Would Rollins have soloed at such length if he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been supported by Cranshaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dynamism driving the rhythm section?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/od0xQbq69nA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bob Cranshaw, RIP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bassist Bob Cranshaw succumbed to bone cancer yesterday at his home in New York City. He was 83. He may be best remembered as Sonny Rollins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bassist for more than half a century, but Cranshaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career also included mainstay work with Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Kai Winding, Wes Montgomery, Duke Pearson, Mose Allison, Oliver Nelson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}