Ron Carter On Piano Jazz

Marian McPartland Piano Jazz

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October 31, 2008 - Ron Carter was born in 1937 in Ferndale, Michigan. He attended the nearby Detroit public schools where he began playing the cello at age 10. His talents earned him a spot at Detroit's Lewis Cass technical high school, an institution renown for some of the musicians who've emerged from its program including Diana Ross, Donald Byrd, Regina Carter and Geri Allen. As a cellist, Carter found it difficult to find opportunities in school groups and semi-professional gigs, so he decided to switch to the upright bass.

Carter continued his studies on the upright bass and received a BA at the Eastman School of Music. Upon graduating, he moved to New York where he began a MA degree at the Manhattan school and began playing with some of the city's hot jazz musicians including Chico Hamilton, Jaki Byard, Thelonious Monk and Art Farmer. It was during a gig with Farmer in 1963, that trumpeter Miles Davis walked into the club and asked Carter to join his quintet. Carter spent the next five years with the group that included Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.

When he left Davis' group, Carter began actively recording and performing in a variety of settings, both as a leader and a sideman. His freelance work included gigs with Coleman Hawkins, Chet Baker, AC Jobim, Horace Silver, Milt Jackson, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Carter's resume also includes recordings with pop acts like Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack and A Tribe Called Quest.

Carter has also been active in jazz education. He worked at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Studies and he was recently named Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the The City College of New York for his eighteen years of teaching there.
Originally recorded June 20, 2006.

Set List
"Blues In The Closet" (Pettiford)
"Stardust" (Carmichael, Parish)
"Bohemia After Dark" (Pettiford)
"New Orleans" (Carmichael)
"Basin Street Blues" (Spenser)
"Portrait of Ron Carter" (McPartland)
"So What" (Davis)