Ron Carter

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Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist.

Carter is also a cellist who has performed on numerous occasions on his instrument, making him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history.

Blues Farm (1973), All Blues (1974); Anything Goes (1975); Anything Goes (1975); Anything Goes (1976); Blues (1977); And a Song for You (1978).

Early life

Carter was born in Ferndale, Michigan. At the age of 10, he began playing cello and then transitioned to bass while in high school. He obtained his B.A. A master's degree in music from the Eastman School of Music (1959) and a master's degree in music from the Manhattan School of Music (1961).

Carter's first jobs as a jazz performer were playing bass with Chico Hamilton in 1959, followed by freelance work with Jaki Byard, Cannonball Adderley, Bobby Timmons, and Thelonious Monk. One of his first recorded appearances on Hamilton was on Eric Dolphy's Out There, a lonesome album released on August 15, 1960, with George Duvivier on bass, Roy Haynes on drums, and Carter on cello. The album's sophisticated harmonies and concepts were in tune with the third stream movement. Carter recorded How Time Passes with Don Ellis in early October 1960, and he released Where?, his first album as a leader, on June 20, 1961, with Dolphy on alto sax, flute, and bass clarinet; and Duvivier playing basslines on tracks where Carter appeared on cello.

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Career

Carter was a member of the second Miles Davis Quintet in the mid 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and drummer Tony Williams. Carter joined Davis' band in 1963, appearing on the album Seven Steps to Heaven and the sequel, E.S.P., the latter being the first album to feature only the complete quintet. Three of Carter's works were also included (the first time he contributed compositions to Davis' group). He remained with Davis until 1968 (when he was replaced by Dave Holland) and was involved in a couple of studio sessions with Davis in 1969 and 1970. Although he played electric bass occasionally during the early jazz-rock fusion period, he has since dropped out of playing it and now plays only double bass in the 2000s.

During the 1960s for Blue Note, Carter appeared on some of Hancock, Williams, and Shorter's recordings. He appeared on numerous Blue Note recordings of the period, including Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Duke Pearson, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, and others. He appeared on soul-pop sensation Roberta Flack's album First Take.

Carter, who left Davis, was a mainstay of CTI Records, making albums under his own name and also appearing on several of the label's albums with a diverse range of other musicians. Joe Henderson, Houston person, Hank Jones, Gabor Szabo, and Cedar Walton were among the notable musical collaborations of the 1970s and 1980s. He was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet in the 1970s. Carter appeared on Billy Joel's album The Bridge in 1986 as a double bass on "Big Man on Mulberry Street."

Carter received a Grammy Award in 1987 for "an instrumental composition for the film" Round Midnight. He received yet another Grammy Award for a tribute album to Miles Davis in 1994. He appears on A Tribe Called Quest's influential album "Verses From the Abstract," one of the many hip hop bands on the island. He appeared as a member of the Classical Jazz Quartet. Carter appeared on the Red Hot Company's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, in 1994. By TIME, the album, which was supposed to raise money in support of the AIDS epidemic affecting the African-American community, was named "Album of the Year." Carter co-produced "Money Jungle" for the Red Hot Company's compilation album, "Red Hot + Indigo," a salute to Duke Ellington, in 2001.

Carter is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of City College of New York who has taught there for 20 years and received an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music in spring 2005. In 2008, he joined the Juilliard School in New York City and taught bass in the school's Jazz Studies department. In Robert Altman's 1996 film Kansas City, Carter appeared in Robert Altman's 1996 film, Kansas City. On "Solitude," the bassist Christian McBride and his fellow bassist Christian McBride appear.

Carter serves on the advisory committee of The Jazz Foundation of America's board of directors and on the Honorary Founder's Committee. Since its inception, Carter has worked with the Jazz Foundation to protect the homes and lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, as well as musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina.

In an episode of HBO's "What Is New Orleans," Carter appeared as himself. Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes by Dan Ouellette was published by ArtistShare in 2008.

In 2010, Carter was given France's highest cultural award, the morganlion, and the Ordre des Lettres title. In 2012, Carter was elected to the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame.

Carter appeared as the featured guest in a 47-minute video interview with YouTuber and guitarist Rick Beato in August 2021. The Japanese government honoured Carter with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette in November 2021. Senior Japanese officials credited Carter with helping to popularize jazz in Japan and facilitating cultural exchange. Carter sat in with Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall in April 2022. Carter commemorated his birthday by releasing a Tiny Desk Concert starring Russell Malone and Donald Vega at the Blue Note Jazz Club in May 2022.

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