RON CARTER

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Ron Carter (born May 4, 1937, Ferndale, Michigan) is an American jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument.

He also has recorded a large body of classical work, and he contributed to the film score for Desperate Characters (1971).



Early life and career
Carter started to play cello at the age of 10, but when his family moved to Detroit, he ran into difficulties regarding the racial 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 harmonics and concepts for 1961 were reminiscent of the then current third stream movement on cello by Carter.

Fame
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.

Carter joined Davis's group in 1963, appearing on the album Seven Steps to Heaven and the follow-up E.S.P., the latter being the first album to feature 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's regular group 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 with Davis and even revealed to an interviewer in 1966 that the famous trumpeter's favorite color was fuchsia.

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.

His work included some non-jazz albums as well, notably as the bassist on Gil Scott-Heron's album 1971 album "Pieces of a Man", which included the song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".

During the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet.

Later career
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.

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.

Carter was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Music Department of The City College of New York, having taught there for twenty years, and received an honorary Doctorate from the Berklee College of Music, in Spring 2004.

Ron Carter is a pipe smoker and has been featured in a few advertisements for tobacco pipes, clothing lines, and basses. He also appears in the advertisements for a Tully's chilled coffee beverage in Japan.

Humanitarian
Ron Carter sits of the Advisory Committee of the Board of Directors of The Jazz Foundation of America as well as being on Honorary Founder's Committee. Ron has worked with the Jazz Foundation since it's inception to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians including musicians that survived Hurricane Katrina.



Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery ve Boby Timmons gibi ünlü isimlerle çalışıp, 2500 kadar albümün yapımına yardım eden sanatçı 1960'ların başında Amerika'nın çeşitli yerlerinde Jaki Byard ve Eric Dolphy ile konserler verdi. 1963'den 1968'e kadar Miles Davis Quintet grubunun bir üyesiydi. Detroit News tarafından 'Yüzyılın En İyi Basçısı' olarak seçilen Carter, Downbeat dergisi tarafından 'Yılın En İyi Caz Basçısı' ödülüne layık görüldü, National Academy of Recording Arts and Science tarafından ise 'En İyi Müzisyen' ödülünü aldı. 1993 yılında Miles Davis Tribute Band ile 'En İyi Caz Enstrüman Grubu' dalında ilk Grammy ödülünü kazanan sanatçı, 1998'de 'Sheet Blues' şarkısıyla ikinci Grammy ödülünü evine götürdü. Ron Carter halen çeşitli üniversitelerde caz üzerine eğitim veriyor ve müzik hayatına hiç ara vermeden devam ediyor.

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Ron Carter (b), Jacky Terrasson (p), Russell Malone (g) enregistrés à Burghausen en 2006