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| 1. | Lester Leaps In
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| 2. | Just Friends
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| 3. | Dream Dancing
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| 4. | Now's the Time
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| 5. | Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most
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| 6. | Tickle Toe
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| 7. | How Long Has This Been Going On?
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| 8. | On Green Dolphin Street
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Jazz
Ronnie Bedford - Editing, Mixing, Producer, Drums
Tommy Newsom - Sax
Bill Charlap - Piano
Peter Huffacker - Bass
George H. Buck, Jr. - Executive Producer, Liner Notes
During the late '70s, drummer Ronnie Bedford was the rhythmic leader for the band led by Benny Carter. Bedford also graced recording sessions by numerous other jazz luminaries in the New York area. Bedford left the Big Apple in 1986 for the bucolic surroundings of Wyoming, where he teaches at Northwest College. Yet he still remains very active in the live performance and recording arenas, giving concerts, and often recording them, in that part of the country. Bedford has always been able to attract top-of-the-line jazz artists for these events and his latest album for Progressive is no exception. Joining him for this concert at Northwest College are sax player Tommy Newsom, stellar pianist Bill Charlap, and a colleague of Bedford's, bass player Peter Huffaker. Bedford's ability to manipulate the drum sticks during solos as well as be the driving force for the rest of the group is evident on every track, but no more so than on the title cut, "Just Friends," as well as on a modern take of "Lester Leaps In." Bedford demonstrates a similar ingenuity and inventiveness on the skins as he used in his two "creating music while you play" recording sessions with classical pianist Carol Lian. There are few around who can hold as intelligent and musical a conversation with the percussive instrument as Bedford. Newsom, once assistant leader for the Tonight Show Orchestra, shows his cool demeanor as the co-carrier of the melody line and extemporizations thereon with Bill Charlap, whether it be on a ballad, such as an impressionistic-shaped "Dream Dancing," or with the fast-moving bop classic of Charlie Parker, "Now's the Time." This album is an excellent small-group outing and is highly recommended.
---Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
Ronnie Bedford
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Mainstream Jazz
Drummer Ronnie Bedford is one of those excellent, but often seemingly invisible artists who form the backbone of jazz. Bedford has been working at his trade since he was 16 in the 1940s, and has worked with and appeared on the albums of many of the top performers in jazz, both instrumental and vocal, comfortable in any number of jazz styles. He started early on the drums, taking lessons from Fred Albright of the NBC Orchestra when he was ten. Later he started listening to radio air checks of the great big bands on the radio which, among other things, resulted in Gene Krupa becoming his idol. Although he was already in jazz, the defining moment when he fully committed to the jazz life came in 1970 while he was with the Morris Nanton Trio. He went on to punch all the slots on the card: Broadway shows, big bands, small groups, TV, and the recording studio. A very short list of those he has sat in at drums are Hank Jones, Sylvia Sims, Arnett Cobb, Benny Carter, Walter Norris, and Bill Watrous. The drummer has also performed at key jazz festivals and major concert halls including the Newport Jazz Festival, Royal Albert Hall in London and New York's Avery Fisher Hall (both with Benny Goodman), and the Smithsonian Museum with Benny Carter.
Although Gene Krupa was his initial inspiration, others have helped shape Bedford's approach to the drums, including Buddy Rich, Big Sid Catlett, and Max Roach. He also gleaned much from other instrumentalists, including Stan Getz, Lester Young, and Miles Davis. While he has recorded prolifically as a sideman, there are relatively few albums with him as leader. QuaDRUMvirate did, however, appear in 2000 for George Buck's Progressive label. Bedford moved to Wyoming in 1986. There he instructs in percussion at Northwest College in Powell. While living and working in Wyoming, Bedford has organized eight tours, calling on friends from New York and Los Angeles to join him as Ronnie Bedford & Friends, playing in the Northern Rocky Mountain region and beyond. Bedford is among the founders of the Yellow Jazz Festival, held in Cody, WY, annually since 1988. His efforts promoting music in Wyoming, jazz in particular, won him the 1993 Governor's Award for the Arts. When he is not performing or teaching, Bedford enjoys listening to jazz performers, including Clifford Brown, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, and Horace Silver, as well as to classical music.
---Dave Nathan, All Music Guide |
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