Bob Cranshaw

Melbourne Robert Cranshaw (December 3, 1932 – November 2, 2016) 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. 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.

Cranshaw died at the age of 83 on November 2, 2016, in Manhattan, New York, from Stage IV cancer.

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 With Jaki Byard With Donald Byrd With Betty Carter 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 With Slide Hampton With Barry Harris With Eddie Harris With Hampton Hawes With Coleman Hawkins With Jimmy Heath With Joe Henderson With Maurice Hines 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 With Morgana King 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 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 With Dave Pike With Sonny Red With Leon Redbone With Irene Reid With Max Roach With Sonny Rollins With Charlie Rouse With Lalo Schifrin With Shirley Scott With Wayne Shorter With Horace Silver With Paul Simon 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 With Loudon Wainwright III With Cedar Walton With Cris Williamson 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
 * Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (Workshop Jazz, 1964)
 * Little Big Horn! (Riverside, 1963)
 * Sayin' Somethin' (Atlantic, 1966)
 * Second Impression (HighNote, 2016)
 * Hello There, Universe (Atlantic, 1970)
 * Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (Prestige, 1973)
 * Carole Bayer Sager (Elektra Records, 1977)
 * Sunset to Dawn (Muse, 1973)
 * Goodies (Verve, 1968)
 * Giblet Gravy (Verve, 1968)
 * Cubicle (Muse, 1978)
 * BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop (SteepleChase, 1990)
 * Introducing Jonathan Butler (Jive, 1985)
 * Out Front! (Prestige, 1964)
 * Up with Donald Byrd (Verve, 1964)
 * I'm Tryin' to Get Home (Blue Note, 1965)
 * Inside Betty Carter (United Artists, 1965)
 * Little Johnny C (Blue Note, 1963)
 * Running for My Life (Elektra, 1980)
 * Wildflower (Kudu, 1973)
 * Up, Up and Away (Prestige, 1967)
 * The Beat Goes On! (Prestige, 1968)
 * Rockin' in Rhythm (Prestige, 1969)
 * Manhattan Fever (Blue Note, 1968)
 * Man & Woman (Groove Merchant, 1974)
 * Think with Your Heart (EMI, 1995)
 * Gettin' Around (Blue Note, 1965)
 * Blues à la Suisse (Prestige, 1973)
 * Clubhouse (Rec. 1965; Blue Note, 1979)
 * Visions (Vanguard, 1978)
 * Idle Moments (Blue Note, 1963)
 * Matador (Blue Note, 1964)
 * Solid (Blue Note, 1964)
 * Ineffable (Columbia, 1965)
 * Explosion! The Sound of Slide Hampton (Atlantic, 1962)
 * Chasin' the Bird (Riverside, 1962)
 * Luminescence! (Prestige, 1967)
 * Cool Sax from Hollywood to Broadway (Columbia, 1964)
 * Playin' in the Yard (Prestige, 1973)
 * Sirius (Pablo, 1974)
 * The Gap Sealer (Cobblestone, 1972)
 * Love and Understanding (Muse, 1973)
 * Inner Urge (Blue Note, 1964)
 * To Nat "King" Cole with Love (Arbors, 2005)
 * Joe's Blues (Verve, 1965) with Wild Bill Davis
 * Blue Notes (Verve, 1966)
 * Happenings (Blue Note, 1966)
 * The Kicker (Rec. 1963; Blue Note, 1999)
 * Milt Jackson Quintet Live at the Village Gate (Riverside, 1963)
 * In a New Setting (Limelight, 1964)
 * Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet (Verve, 1968)
 * West Africa (Muse, 1973)
 * Headed and Gutted (Muse, 1974)
 * Terra Brasilis (RCA Victor, 1980)
 * Gravity!!! (Verve, 1996)
 * J.J.! (RCA Victor, 1964)
 * Golden Boy (Mercury, 1964)
 * I/We Had a Ball (Limelight, 1965)
 * Soul Fountain (Vortex, 1970)
 * Vintage '78 (Arista, 1978)
 * New Beginnings (Paramount Records, 1973)
 * We're Goin' Up (Prestige, 1967)
 * Sky Shadows (Prestige, 1968)
 * Better Than Anything (Äva, 1963)
 * The Blue Yusef Lateef (Atlantic, 1968)
 * Talk with the Spirits (Pablo, 1976)
 * The Village Caller! (Riverside, 1963)
 * The Loop (Tuba, 1965)
 * People & Love (Milestone, 1972)
 * Junior's Blues (Riverside, 1962)
 * That Lovin' Feelin' (Milestone, 1972)
 * Barry Manilow II (Bell, 1974)
 * Magnetic Feel (Cadet, 1975)
 * Stump Juice (Groove Merchant, 1975)
 * The Groover (JAM, 1982)
 * Right Now! (Blue Note, 1965)
 * Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics (Columbia Records, 1962)
 * 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)
 * A Caddy for Daddy (Blue Note, 1966)
 * Hi Voltage (Blue Note, 1967)
 * Reach Out! (Blue Note, 1968)
 * Evolution (Blue Note, 1963)
 * Movin' Wes (Verve, 1964)
 * Bumpin' (Verve, 1965)
 * Moody and the Brass Figures (Milestone, 1966)
 * Don't Look Away Now! (Prestige, 1969)
 * Take Twelve (Jazzland, 1962)
 * The Sidewinder (Blue Note, 1964)
 * Delightfulee (Blue Note, 1966)
 * The Gigolo (Blue Note, 1966)
 * Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle (Impulse!, 1966)
 * Hush! (JazzLine, 1962)
 * Wahoo! (Blue Note, 1965)
 * Honeybuns (Atlantic, 1965)
 * Prairie Dog (Atlantic, 1966)
 * Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band (Blue Note, 1967)
 * The Phantom (Blue Note, 1968)
 * Now Hear This (Blue Note, 1968)
 * How Insensitive (Blue Note, 1969)
 * It Could Only Happen with You (Blue Note, 1970)
 * Chocomotive (Prestige, 1967)
 * Blue Odyssey (Prestige, 1968)
 * Esther Phillips Sings (Atlantic, 1966)
 * Jazz for the Jet Set (Atlantic, 1966)
 * Breezing (Jazzland, 1960)
 * From Branch to Branch (Atco, 1981)
 * Room for One More (Verve, 1965)
 * Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (EmArcy, 1958)
 * 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)
 * Moment's Notice (Storyville/Jazzcraft, 1978)
 * Once a Thief and Other Themes (Verve, 1965)
 * Great Scott!! (Impulse!, 1959)
 * Blue Flames with Stanley Turrentine (Prestige, 1964)
 * Queen of the Organ (Impulse!, 1964)
 * Latin Shadows (Impulse!, 1965)
 * Soul Song (Atlantic, 1968)
 * Second Genesis (Vee-Jay, 1960)
 * The Cape Verdean Blues (Blue Note, 1965)
 * Serenade to a Soul Sister (Blue Note, 1968)
 * In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note, 1972)
 * Silver 'n Brass (Blue Note, 1975)
 * There Goes Rhymin' Simon (Columbia, 1973)
 * Hoochie Coochie Man (Verve, 1966)
 * Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III (J Records, 2004)
 * Impromptu (Mercury, 1962)
 * Gingerbread Men (Mainstream, 1966)
 * Do You Know the Way? (Milestone, 1968)
 * Hustlin' (Blue Note, 1964)
 * Joyride (Blue Note, 1965)
 * Rough 'n' Tumble (Blue Note, 1966)
 * Easy Walker (Blue Note, 1966)
 * The Spoiler (Blue Note, 1966)
 * Always Something There (Blue Note, 1968)
 * Live at Newport (Impulse!, 1963)
 * Watch What Happens (RCA Victor, 1968)
 * Loudon Wainwright III (Atlantic, 1970)
 * The Electric Boogaloo Song (Prestige, 1969)
 * Cris Williamson (Ampex Records, 1971)
 * Me and the Blues (RCA Victor, 1964)
 * That Holiday Feelin' (Verve, 1990)
 * Zoning (Mary, 1974)
 * Happy Come Home (Geffen, 1987)
 * Just in Time (SteepleChase, 1989)
 * New York, New Sound (Mack Avenue, 2003)
 * Easterly Winds (Blue Note, 1967)
 * The Cisco Kid (Groove Merchant, 1973)
 * The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones (Impulse!, 1960)
 * Dirty Dog (Verve, 1966)
 * The Young Lions (Vee-Jay, 1960)
 * Money in the Pocket (Atlantic, 1967)