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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...