first of all i swear to god i looked at the campaign last night. because i discovered the just posted campaign for alphonse mouzon, and the next featured related link was Bobs, which I had seen prior, but i clicked and viewed and thought about it, very end of night-
in addition to sonny of course, one of the very best part of the whole sonny concert experience was seeing bob cranshaw. one important thing about him i learned by being around him was that he was very proud of was his involvement with TV show Sesame St. he was very proud of his role in what that show did for people.
i asked him why he used a fender electric bass on rough n tumble but acoustic bass on hank mobley albums and he said stanley asked him to bring it to the session, and hank was going for a more straight ahead thing.
I saw Bob outside of a Sonny performance once....he was a special guest at a huge all star concert at ucla- so i saw the Sidewinder (& "gettin around") rhythm section: Barry Harris / Bob Cranshaw / Billy Higgins + Charles Lloyd rock "Sweet Georgia Brown"....