Ron Carter
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Ron Carter (born May 4, 1937, Ferndale, Michigan) is an American jazz bassist. He started at the age of 10 on cello, but when his family moved to Detroit, he ran into difficulties regarding the racial stereotyping of classical musicians and instead moved to bass. He played in the Eastman School's Philharmonic Orchestra, and gained his degree in 1959. His unique sound and great swing have made him a sought after studio man — his appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history.
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. He also performed on some of Hancock and Shorter's solo projects. He has performed and recorded with Billy Cobham, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Kenny Burrell, Milt Jackson, and many other important jazz artists, and has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader.
He appears on the alternative hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest's influential album Low End Theory.
Ron Carter is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.
He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Music Department of The City College of New York, having taught there for eighteen years, and recently received an honorary Doctorate from the Berklee College of Music, in Spring 2004.
Carter has a niece, through his sister, who works as an morning anchor on the CBS Hartford, CT affiliate WFSB-TV3.
Trivia
Ron Carter is a pipe smoker and has featured in adverts for smoking pipes as well as clothing lines and basses.Selected discography
- Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960)
- Wes Montgomery - So Much Guitar (1961)
- Miles Davis - Quiet Nights (1962)
- Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1964)
- Miles Davis - Miles Smiles (1966)
- Miles Davis - Miles In the Sky (1968)
- McCoy Tyner - Extensions (1970)
- Quincy Jones - Gula Matari (1970)
- Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (1970)
- Donald Byrd - Electric Byrd (1970)
- Roberta Flack - Quiet Fire (1971)
- Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973)
- The Wiz (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1978)
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