Crantford, Bennett

He is a contrabass player born Leonard Bennett Crantford in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in South Carolina. He took his further studies at Indiana University and after setting out on his career as a professional musician performed with many orchestras in Indiana as well as in Texas and the Southern states of the US. In 1983 he took on a position with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and has since worked with them as a musician, a section coach for the ISO's "Side by Side" educational program and the Assistant Orchestral Personnel Manager. He has also worked as a member of Suzuki & Friends and the Aire Born Strings who have performed on recordings with Tim Zimmerman & The Kings Brass . Outside of classical music, he has performed on recordings such as The Bull is Blind by Barbara Bell and Timeless Broadway by Daniel Narducci and Stand by Denver & The Mile High Orchestra.

Tim Zimmerman & The King's Brass recordings

Angels We Have Heard on High (Traditional French/James Chadwick/Edward Barnes )

Track Records CD625 (CD: Christmas With Tim Zimmerman & the King's Brass)

Conductor and strings arranger- Ardis Faber

Organ - Dan Miller

Percussion - James Kirby

Piano - Alex Thio

Strings - Aire Born Strings

Trombone - Brian Kay

Trombone - Doug Warner

Trombone - Tony Warner

Trumpet - Don Duncan

Trumpet - Larry Jones

Trumpet - Tim Zimmerman

Tuba - David Kneller

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