Roland Hanna w/Ron Carter & Tony Williams

Where's the rest of this? Just over 1 min of Roland Hanna w/Ron Carter & Tony Williams, Spain, 1984 (Mostly Tony) https://t.co/RZhjhfLuUu

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Where characters hang out: iconic bassist Ron Carter @DrDanReinstein's gig last night w/@MoPleasure & @yaronstavi. An honour! @LondonJazz pic.twitter.com/WN8oiVzpUT

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Famed jazz bassist #RonCarter ....

Famed jazz bassist Ron Carter picks 10 faves from his 2,200 recordings https://t.co/WUHocfzVcL

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Read Ron Carter: Always at the Center of the Action: Great jazz bassists can always be identified by the fact... https://t.co/8FkB7UmF1B

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bassist Ron Carter talking ....

We kick off #HerbieFest at 7PM on @checkoutjazz with bassist Ron Carter talking @herbiehancock & more on 88.3FM! pic.twitter.com/wuOtFv9IBs

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#jazz #bass "A good bassist determines the direction of any band" Ron Carter

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Ron Carter: 75 Years Of Superb Bass

Today is the 75th birthday of Ron Carter, one of the most influential and widely recorded bassists in jazz history. With appearances on more than 2,000 records, his career has spanned the past six decades and is still going strong today. Photo: Beti Niemeyer

Carter achieved international attention as a member of Miles Davis' legendary "second great quintet" during the mid- to late 1960s. With nimble and accurate technique, his clear lines always kept the pulse steadily moving and synchronized perfectly with everyone on stage. This reliability landed him sideman gigs with countless other musicians: McCoy Tyner, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Hancock and Horace Silver, just to name a few legends. By by DOMINIC MARTINEZ


Carter's soloing ability is not to be ignored, of course, and he has made his mark as a bandleader since the 1970s. Nevertheless, the biggest legacy he leaves today for younger generations of bass players can be summed up in an anecdote that I've heard from him, via D.C.-area bassist Herman Burney: A $100 bill slipped under the strings of an upright bass stays under the upper section of the neck (the instrument's lower pitch range), but falls if placed farther down the neck (in the higher pitch range). It's symbolic — bassists make the bulk of their money by supporting groups, not by taking solos in the higher register.

Five recordings are not enough to fully reflect the entirety of a career spanning more than half a century, but the following selections provide an adequate sample.
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Ron Carter - Little Walts

Live at the Bird in Yokohama Japan 1990
Ron Carter:piccolo bass,
Stephen Scott:piano,
Leon Malson:contrabass,
Steven Kroon:percussion,
Lewis Hash:drums

Ron Carter On Piano Jazz

by Grant Jackson
January 29, 2010 - Ron Carter first appeared on the national scene as a member of Miles Davis' second great quintet, which coalesced around the recording of Davis' album Seven Steps to Heaven. Carter has also worked with an unbelievable range of giants from inside and outside the world of jazz: from Coleman Hawkins, Chet Baker and Eric Dolphy to Aretha Franklin, Antonio Carlos Jobim and A Tribe Called Quest.
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The session gets underway with a duet on "Blues in the Closet," written by bassist Oscar Pettiford. Carter holds down a steady bass line while Marian McPartland swings brightly through a solo; she then comps his bouncing solo with stabbing chords. "His tunes are fun to play," McPartland says of Pettiford. "They've got a sort of cheerful vibe." "It's a bass player writing for the instrument," Carter replies. "And anyone can play the tune and have a comfortable experience."

Carter and McPartland continue with a duet on "Stardust." Carter, who started out on cello in the Detroit public schools, brings a unique touch by leading the tune on bass as McPartland accompanies on the piano.
"It didn't sound rushed, and yet you played the whole verse and the whole chorus," McPartland says. "It sounded very romantic." The session continues with a duet on another Oscar Pettiford tune, "Bohemia After Dark." McPartland follows with her solo rendition of Hoagy Carmichael's "New Orleans," which naturally leads in to another duet on the seminal New Orleans tune "Basin Street Blues." "People put that tune in a certain category," McPartland says. "But it's nice the way you did that — you led me into doing things."

"One of the fun things about being a bass player is you can make those kinds of things happen," Carter says. Next, McPartland plays another Piano Jazz signature — her solo musical portrait of the program's guest. The portrait she plays for Carter is both lyrical and playful, and evokes the understated beauty of the bass part in jazz. "When one hears a musical portrait of oneself played so clearly and wonderfully as that you just played — it's a really humbling sound," Carter says. "Thank you very much."

They close with a duet on Miles Davis' iconic "So What," playing at a tempo somewhere between the steady original from the Kind of Blue sessions for Columbia and the breakneck pace of Davis' early-'60s quintet. McPartland sums up the tune and this session: "I bet Miles liked it."
Originally recorded June 20, 2006. Originally broadcast in 2007.
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Ron Carter....

Ron Carter, with more than 2,500 albums to his credit, may be the world's most recorded jazz bassist. His creativity and originality have redefined the role of the bass in jazz and forever changed the way the instrument is played. From his insistent yet relaxed walking bass lines to his wonderfully surprising note choices to his trademark slides, Carter's style is unmistakable. Growing up in Detroit, Carter studied bass at Cass Technical High School. He attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, receiving a bachelor's degree in music, and later earned his Master of Music degree in double bass from the Manhattan School of Music. Once in New York City, Carter began gaining a reputation on the jazz scene, performing with Jaki Byard, Randy Weston, and Eric Dolphy. In 1963, while performing with Art Farmer, Miles Davis invited him to join a new quintet that would include Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, George Coleman, and later Wayne Shorter. The group was to become one of the most creative and influential forces in the history of jazz. As a member of the rhythm section, Carter expanded the concept and role of the bassist, altering the harmony and shifting the rhythm to push the music into exciting, new territory. During Carter's five-year tenure with this quintet, he appeared on classic recordings like Nefertiti, E.S.P., and Seven Steps to Heaven. In the decades that followed, Carter worked with a diverse list of artists, both jazz and pop, including such names as McCoy Tyner, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Roberta Flack, the Kronos Quartet, and A Tribe Called Quest. He also became the house bassist for the CTI label, recording with George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, and Jim Hall, with whom he established an acclaimed duo that still performs today. Carter continued to play with his Miles Davis bandmates in the V.S.O.P. band and in the GRAMMY® Award-winning Miles Davis Tribute Band. Over the years, Carter has also become a major force in education, serving as Distinguished Professor of Music for City College of New York and as Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance from 1995 until 1999. Bassists Robert Hurst, Peter Washington, Larry Grenadier, and Victor Bailey have all studied under Carter. In recent years, he has performed with his own quartet and with his Golden Striker Trio, which includes Mulgrew Miller and Russell Malone. In 2007, Carter celebrated his 70th birthday at Carnegie Hall with a concert that featured him performing with longtime collaborators Hancock, Shorter, Hall and others. This year saw the release of his biography Ron Carter - Finding the Right Notes
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Ron Carter solo - willow weep for me

Switserland / 1984

Ronnie Scott's....

20th-22nd April: Dear Miles - Ron Carter's Foursight
A living legend on the bass, Ron Carter is one of the most recorded bassists in jazz having appeared on over 2,500 albums. Ron came to prominence via the second great Miles Davis Quintet of the early 60’s, which included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams. This band will pay tribute to Miles and will feature pianist Stephen Scott, percussionist Rolando Morales-Matos and drummer Payton Crossley.

Ron Carter On Piano Jazz

Marian McPartland Piano Jazz

Listen Ron Carter's Interview and play at below link
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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)