Bob Belden
As a composer, historian, arranger and saxophonist, Bob Belden was a music
fanatic who worked for Blue Note Records in the 1980s and '90s and had a
reputation as a performer who always took a progressive, modern approach to his
beloved jazz. Growing up in South Carolina, Belden learned piano from his father
and several other instruments whilst in High School and won a scholarship to the
North Texas College of Music at 16-years-old. After graduating, he cut his teeth
as part of Woody Herman's big band orchestra and moved to New York in 1983 where
he worked as sideman, formed his o...
