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This article is about the jazz double-bassist. For other date as leader, Where?, with Eric Dolphy, Charlie Peruses, see Ron Carter (disambiguation).
sip, Mal Waldron, George Duvivier, and a date also with
Dolphy called Out There with George Duvivier and Roy
Ron Carter (born Ronald Levin Carter, May 4, 1937) Haynes and Carter on cello; its advanced harmonies and
concepts were in step with the third stream movement.
is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on
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over 2,000 albums make him one of the most-recorded
bassists in jazz history. Carter is also a cellist who has
recorded numerous times on that instrument.[2] Some of 2 Career
his studio albums as a leader include: Blues Farm (1973);
All Blues (1973); Spanish Blue (1974); Anything Goes 2.1 1960s-1980s
(1975); Yellow & Green (1976); Pastels (1976); Piccolo
(1977); Third Plane (1977); Peg Leg (1978); and A Song Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis
for You (1978).
Quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie
Hancock, Wayne Shorter and drummer Tony Williams.
Carter joined Daviss group in 1963, appearing on the album Seven Steps to Heaven and the follow-up E.S.P., the
latter being the rst album to feature only the full quintet. It also featured three of Carters compositions (the
only time he contributed compositions to Daviss group).
He stayed with Davis until 1968 (when he was replaced
by Dave Holland), and participated in a couple of studio sessions with Davis in 1969 and 1970. Although he
played electric bass occasionally during this era of early
jazz-rock fusion, he has subsequently stopped playing that
instrument, and in the 2000s plays only double bass.
Early life
After leaving Davis, Carter was for several years a mainstay of CTI Records, making albums under his own name
and also appearing on many of the labels records with a
diverse range of other musicians. Notable musical partnerships in the 1970s and 1980s included Joe Henderson,
Houston Person, Hank Jones and Cedar Walton. During
the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet. In 1986, Carter played double bass on "Big Man on
Mulberry Street" on Billy Joel's album "The Bridge".
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a track called Verses from the Abstract. He also appears as a member of the jazz combo the Classical Jazz
Quartet. In 1994, Carter appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot +
Cool. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in
support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African
American community, was heralded as Album of the
Year by TIME. In 2001, Carter collaborated with Black
Star and John Patton to record Money Jungle for the
Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Red Hot +
Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington.
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1961: Where? (New Jazz)
1969: Uptown Conversation (Embryo)
1972: Alone Together (Milestone) with Jim Hall
1973: Blues Farm (CTI)
1973: All Blues (CTI)
1974: Spanish Blue (CTI)
Carter is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Music Department of The City College of New York, having
taught there for twenty years,[4] and received an honorary
Doctorate from the Berklee College of Music in Spring
2005.[5] He joined the faculty of the Juilliard School in
New York City in 2008, teaching bass in the schools Jazz
Studies program. Carter made an appearance in Robert
Altman's 1996 lm, Kansas City. The end credits feature him and fellow bassist Christian McBride duetting
on "Solitude".
Carter appeared as himself in an episode of the HBO series Treme entitled What Is New Orleans. Carters authorized biography, Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes,
by Dan Ouellette, was published by ArtistShare in 2008.
In 2013, Carter was one of four judges at Jazz at Lincoln
Centers 18th Annual Essentially Ellington competition
and festival.
Discography
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As sideman
1982: Live at Village West (Concord Jazz) with Jim With Geri Allen
Hall
Twenty One (Blue Note, 1994)
1984: Telephone (Concord Jazz) with Jim Hall
Timeless Portraits and Dreams (Telarc, 2006)
1985: Ron Carter Plays Bach (Phillips)
1986: The Puzzle (SMS)
1987: Very Well (Deep Moat)
1988: All Alone (EmArcy)
1990: Eight Plus (Victor)
1990: Panamanhattan (Dreyfuss Jazz) with Richard
Galliano
1991: Meets Bach (Blue Note)
1992: Friends (Blue Note)
1994: Jazz, My Romance (Blue Note)
1995: Mr. Bow Tie (Blue Note)
1995: Brandenburg Concerto (Blue Note)
1997: The Bass and I
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As sideman
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Body Talk (1973)
Bad Benson (1974)
My Funny Valentine
Live in Milan 1964
Live at the Plugged Nickel
Miles Smiles
ESP
Miles in the Sky
Seven Steps to Heaven
Sorcerer
Filles de Kilimanjaro
Water Babies
Nefertiti
With Eli Degibri
Israeli Song (2010)
With Paul Desmond
Summertime (A&M/CTI, 1968)
From the Hot Afternoon (A&M/CTI, 1969)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (A&M/CTI, 1970)
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As sideman
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Gilberto with Turrentine with Stanley Turrentine
(CTI, 1971)
With Giorgio
Party Of The Century (2010)
With Benny Golson
Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1961) also
released as Just Jazz!
Free (Argo, 1962)
With Johnny Grin
White Gardenia (Riverside, 1961)
The Kerry Dancers (Riverside, 196162)
With Jim Hall
Concierto (CTI, 1975)
Live at Village West (1984)
Telephone (1985)
With Chico Hamilton
The Further Adventures of El Chico (Impulse!, 1966)
With Johnny Hammond
Wild Horses Rock Steady (Kudu, 1971)
The Prophet (Kudu, 1972)
Higher Ground (Kudu, 1973)
Crossings (1977)
VSOP (Columbia)
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The In Sound (Atlantic, 1965)
Mean Greens (Atlantic, 1966)
The Tender Storm (Atlantic, 1966)
Plug Me In (Atlantic, 1968)
Excursions (Atlantic, 196673)
How Can You Live Like That? (Atlantic, 1976)
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As sideman
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Dusty Blue (Bethlehem, 1960)
With Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson (Mainstream, 1971)
With Meeco
Amargo Mel (Connector, 2009)
With Helen Merrill
Duets (1987)
With Wes Montgomery
So Much Guitar (1961)
Tequila
California Dreaming
With James Moody
The Blues and Other Colors (Milestone, 1969)
With Airto Moreira
Free (CTI, 1972)
With Idris Muhammad
Peace and Rhythm (Prestige, 1971)
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Spellbinder (Impulse!, 1966)
Mizrab (CTI, 1972)
With Livingston Taylor
In Harmony (1980)
In Person (1961)
4 Filmography
2003: Ron Carter & Art Farmer: Live at Sweet Basil
with Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins[8]
2002: Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane! with Ron
Carter and Billy Cobham[9]
5 References
[1] http://roncarter.net/JazzMaster/
about-jazz-bass-master-ron-carter/
[2] Allmusic biography
[3] DownBeat Announces 2012
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External links
Ron Carter Ocial Website
Interview with Ron Carter
2006 Interview with Ron Carter
Interview with Ron Carter (2007)
Ron Carter at All About Jazz
Bassist Ron Carter, an Interview With Editor Jake
Kot
Ron Carters dedicated page on the Party Of The
Century project
Ron Carter Video interview at underyourskin on
YouTube
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