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about||the basketball player|Ron Carter (basketball)|the ice hockey player|Ron Carter (ice hockey)Infobox musical artist| name = Ron Carter| image = Ron Carter photo 1.jpg| caption = Ron Carter performing at the European Jazz Expò 2007| image_size =| landscape = yes| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1937|5|4|mf=y| death_date =| origin = Ferndale, Michigan|Ferndale , Michigan , United States|U.S. | instrument = Double bass Cello Piccolo bass Electric bass | genre = Orchestral jazz Mainstream jazz Third Stream | occupation = Professor Clinician Jazz musician | years_active = 1960–present| label =| associated_acts =| website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Ron Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an United States|American jazz double-bassist . His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton , Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar . Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6251/biography|pure_url=yes Allmusic biography
Biography
Carter was born in Ferndale, Michigan|Ferndale , Michigan . He started to play cello at the age of 10, but when his family moved to Detroit, he ran into difficulties regarding the racial stereotype|stereotyping of classical musicians and instead moved to bass. He attended the historic Cass Technical High School in Detroit, and, later, the Eastman School of Music , where he played in its Philharmonic Orchestra. He gained his bachelor's degree at Eastman in 1959, and in 1961 a master's degree in double bass performance from the Manhattan School of Music .
His first jobs as a jazz musician were with Jaki Byard and Chico Hamilton . His first records were made with Eric Dolphy (another former member of Hamilton's group) and Don Ellis , in 1960. His own first date as leader, Where? , with Dolphy and Mal Waldron and a date also with Dolphy called Out There with George Duvivier and Roy Haynes and Carter on cello; its advanced harmonies and concepts were in step with the third stream movement.
Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock , Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams . Carter joined Davis's group in 1963, appearing on the album Seven Steps to Heaven (album)|Seven Steps to Heaven and the follow-up E.S.P. (Miles Davis album)|E.S.P. , the latter being the first album to feature only the full quintet. It also featured three of Carter's compositions (the only time he contributed compositions to Davis's 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 period, he has subsequently eschewed that instrument entirely, and now plays only acoustic bass. Carter was close to Davis and even revealed to an interviewer in 1966 that the famous trumpeter's favorite color was fuchsia. http://danouellette.artistshare.com/default.aspx
Carter also performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the sixties for Blue Note Records . He was a sideman on many Blue Note recordings of the era, playing with Sam Rivers , Freddie Hubbard , Duke Pearson , Lee Morgan , McCoy Tyner , Andrew Hill , Horace Silver and others.
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 label's records with a diverse range of other musicians. Notable musical partnerships in the 70's and 80's included Joe Henderson , Houston Person , Hank Jones , and Cedar Walton . During the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet .
He appears on the alternative hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest 's influential album The Low End Theory on 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 Magazine . In 2001, Carter collaborated with Black Star (group)|Black Star and John Patton (musician)|John Patton to record "Money Jungle" for the Red Hot Organization 's compilation album, Red Hot + Indigo , a tribute to Duke Ellington .
Carter was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Music Department of The City College of New York , having taught there for twenty years, http://www.roncarter.net Ron Carter Official Website and received an honorary Doctorate from the Berklee College of Music, in Spring 2005 http://www.berklee.edu/about/honorary.html. He joined the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City in 2008, teaching bass in the school's Jazz Studies program.
Carter made a notable appearance in Robert Altman 's 1996 film Kansas City (film)|Kansas City . The end credits feature him and fellow bassist Christian McBride duetting on " Solitude ".
Ron Carter sits on the Advisory Committee of the Board of Directors of The Jazz Foundation of America as well as the ''Honorary Founder's Committee''.Carter and the JFA">jerryjazzmusician.com. 2009-13-10. URL: http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm? page=storfer.html. Accessed: 2009-13-10. (Archived by jerryjazzmusician.com at http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm? page=storfer.html) Ron has worked with the Jazz Foundation since its inception to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians including musicians that survived Hurricane Katrina .ireport.com. 2009-13-10. URL: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-337150. Accessed: 2009-13-10. (Archived by ireport.com at http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-337150)
Carter appeared as himself in an episode of the HBO series Treme (TV series)|Treme entitled "What Is New Orleans."
Carter's authorized biography, "Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes," by Dan Ouellette was published by ArtistShare in 2008.
Discography
As leader
1961: Where? ( Prestige Records ) with Eric Dolphy , Charlie Persip , Mal Waldron , George Duvivier
Betwixt & Between (A& M/CTI, 1969) with J. J. Johnson
Stonebone (A& M/CTI (Japan), 1969) with J. J. Johnson
Filmography
2003: Ron Carter & Art Farmer: Live at Sweet Basil with Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins http://www.view.com/ron_carter_and_art_farmer_live_at_sweet_basil_dvd.aspx VIEW DVD Listing
2002: Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane! with Ron Carter and Billy Cobham http://www.view.com/herbie_hancock_trio_hurricane_dvd.aspx VIEW DVD Listing
References
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External links
http://www.roncarter.net Ron Carter Official Website
http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2007/06/interview_with_.html Interview with Ron Carter
http://www.stateofmindmusic.com/? entry=428 2006 Interview with Ron Carter
http://www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/music+industry+profile+legendary+jazz+bassist+ron+carter Interview with Ron Carter (2007)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php? id=5580 Ron Carter at All About Jazz
http://www.bass-musician-magazine.com/General/bass-musician-magazine-detail.asp? year=2008& month=12& article-id=528507067 Bassist Ron Carter, an Interview With Editor Jake Kot
http://potc.giorgiosound.com/index.php? page=Ron%20Carter Ron Carter's dedicated page on the Party Of The Century project
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php? id=50133 Video interview with Ron Carter at allaboutjazz.com
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