Ronnie Bedford


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American jazz drummer, born June 2, 1931 in Bridgeport, CT, died in December 2014 in Powell, Wyoming, where he was a retired professor at Northwest College.
Bedford was one of the founders of the Yellowstone Jazz Festival held annually in Cody, Wyoming, and was the recipient of the 1993 Wyoming Governor’s Award for the Arts.

ALBUMS


Ronnie Bedford
Triplicity
2000, CD, Album, Progressive Records (2)
Ronnie Bedford & Friends
Quadrumvirate
2000, CD, Album, Progressive Records (2)
Don Friedman Trio Featuring: George Mraz, Ronnie Bedford
Invitation
1993, ,
Bop
Carol Lian, Ronnie Bedford
Neptune
1992, CD, Album, Unichrom
The Bill Watrous Quartet* With Derek Smith, Linc Milliman And Ronnie Bedford
Roaring Back Into New York, New York
1983,
The Struggles All-Stars
Constellation
2010, CD, Album, Progressive Records (2)
Ronnie Bedford Quartet
Just Friends
2002, CD, Album, Progressive Records (2),
Dick Meldonian Quartet
You've Changed
1991, CD, Album, RE, Progressive Records (2)
The Benny Carter All-Star Sax Ensemble
Over The Rainbow
1989, ,
Swing/Cool Jazz
Jack Reilly Trio
November
1983
Marco Di Marco Quartet
In New York
1981, ,
Modal/Soul-Jazz
Carmen Leggio Quartet
Smile
1978
Hank Jones Trio
Arigato
1977, ,
Bop
The Rod Levitt Orchestra
Solid Ground
1966
The Rod Levitt Orchestra
Insight
1965, ,
Post Bop
The Rod Levitt Orchestra
The Dynamic Sound Patterns Of The Rod Levitt Orchestra
1964
The Bernie Leighton Quartet
The Bernie Leighton Quartet Plays Duke Ellington (And Associates) At Jimmy Weston's
LP, Monmouth Evergreen

APPEARANCES +


Benny Carter
Musicmasters Catalogue - Set 1
2011, 4xCD, Comp, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records
Various
The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records
2006, ,
Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz/Free Jazz
Benny Carter
Jazz Masters Series [Jazz at The Smithsonian]
2005, DVD-V, RE, Shanachie
Carmen Leggio Quartets*
Smile / Tarrytown Tenor
2003, CD, Comp, RM, Progressive Records (2),
Bobby Hackett
Hello Louis! / Bobby Hackett Plays Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits
2001, CD, Comp, Collectables, Collectables, ,
Dixieland/Swing/Easy Listening
Various
Impulsively Ellington (A Tribute To Duke Ellington)
1999, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Impulse!,
Jack Reilly
Masks
1998, CD, Album, Unichrom
Jimmie Maxwell And His Jazz Gentlemen
Let's Fall In Love
1996, CD, Album, Progressive Records (2), ,
Dixieland
Susannah McCorkle
Over The Rainbow: The Songs Of E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
1996
Sylvia Syms
A Jazz Portrait Of Johnny Mercer
1995, CD, Album, DRG Records,
Barbara Lea / Bob Dorough / Dick Sudhalter*
Hoagy's Children - Songs Of Hoagy Carmichael Volume One
1994, CD, Comp, Audiophile (2), ,
Vocal/Swing
Bob Dorough, Dick Sudhalter*, Barbara Lea
Hoagy's Children - Songs Of Hoagy Carmichael Volume Two
1994, CD, Comp, Audiophile (2), ,
Vocal/Swing
Marco Di Marco
Best & Unreleased
1994
Various
The Progressive Records All Star Tenor Sax Spectacular and The Progressive Records All Star Trombone Spectacular
1992, CD, Comp, Progressive Records (2), ,
Swing/Bop
Various
The Two Progressive Records All Star Trumpet Spectaculars
1991, CD, Album, Comp, Progressive Records (2), ,
Big Band/Ballad/Swing
Benny Carter
My Kind Of Trouble
1989, Cass, Pablo Records
Benny Carter
My Kind Of Trouble
1989, ,
Swing
Various
Jazz Sampler
1989
The RCA Victor Jazz Workshop
The Arrangers
1987, ,
Big Band
Jeff Troxel, Anne Martin
Eclectic Acoustic
1986, LP, Not On Label
George Masso
No Frills, Just Music
1984
Buddy DeFranco
Mr. Lucky
1984,
Barbara Lea / Bob Dorough / Dick Sudhalter*
Hoagy's Children - Songs Of Hoagy Carmichael
1983, LP, Album, Audiophile (2)
Don Friedman
Later Circle
1983
Various
The Progressive Records All Star Trombone Spectacular
1982, LP, Album, Progressive Records (2), ,
Brass Band
Walter Norris Trio*
A Child is Born
1981
The Derek Smith Trio*
Plays Jerome Kern
1981, ,
Swing
Harold Ashby
Presenting Harold Ashby
1981
Arnett Cobb
Funky Butt
1980
Bobbi Rogers
Tommy Wolf Can Really Hang You Up The Most
1980
Dick Meldonian And The Jersey Swingers
Some Of These Days
1979
Chuck Wayne Trio* And Quartet*
Traveling
1978, ,
Cool Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Chris Connor
Sweet And Swinging
1978
Morgana King
Stretchin' Out
1978, ,
Vocal
Ray Turner
The Legendary Ray Turner
1977
Various
The All Star Trombone Spectacular
1977, ,
Brass Band
Buddy DeFranco - Tal Farlow Quintet
The Great Encounter
1977
Scott Hamilton, Flip Phillips, Ray Turner (4) , And Peter Loeb, Frank Sokolow*, Bennie Wallace
The Progressive Records All Star Tenor Sax Spectacular
1977
Various
The Progressive Records All Star Trumpet Spectacular
1977, ,
Brass Band/Contemporary Jazz
Various
All Star Trumpet Spectacular Vol. 2
1977,
Don Friedman
Jazz Dancing
1977,
The No-Gap Generation Jazz Band
Swings Live At The Monmouth County Library
1976, LP, Album, Dharma Productions, No/Gap Generation Inc.
Al Stewart
Al Stewart's Museum Of Modern Brass 2
1975, LP, RCA Victor, ,
Big Band/Jazz-Funk/Jazz-Rock
Various
Ellingtonia, Volume Two (The Impulse Years)
1974
Tamalpais Exchange
Tamalpais Exchange
1970
Johnny Richards Orchestra*
Aqui Se Habla Español
1967, ,
Big Band/Latin Jazz
The Pee Wee Russell Quartet* with Marshall Brown
Ask Me Now!
1966, ,
Bop
Muriel Roberts
Music for All Times & Seasons
1965, LP, Album, Scepter Records,
Chuck Wayne
Morning Mist
1965
Johnny Richards
My Fair Lady - My Way
1964, ,
Big Band/Swing/Post Bop
No Strings Sextet
No Strings
1962, LP, Album, RE, Columbia, Columbia
The Nutty Squirrels
The Nutty Squirrels
1959
Don Elliott And His Orchestra
Music For The Sensational Sixties
1958
Buddy DeFranco - Tal Farlow Quintet
The Great Encounter
LP, Album, Promo, RE, Progressive Records (2),
Tamalpais Exchange
Tamalpais Exchange
2014, ,
Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock
Benny Carter
Live At The Smithsonian
2003, DVD-V, Unofficial, NTSC, Immortal, ,
Swing
Benny Carter
My Kind Of Trouble
1999, ,
Swing