Ron Crotty
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
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
425 releases · 71 albums · active 1950–2024
- Performance · 508
- Other credits · 6
Studios: College of the Pacific · Finney Chapel, Oberlin College · Storyville, Boston · Oberlin College
Frequent collaborators
- The Dave Brubeck Trio
- Dave Brubeck
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet
- The Dave Brubeck Octet
- Dave Brubeck Trio
- Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Various
- Dave Brubeck Octet










