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'''Ronald Levin Carter''' (born May 4, 1937)<ref name="feather">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Feather |first1=Leonard |last2=Gitler |first2=Ira |title=Carter, Ron (Ronald Levin) |encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz |date=1999 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=New York |pages=115}}</ref> is an American [[jazz]] [[double bassist]]. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/1/ron-carter-earns-world-record-as-the-most-recorded-jazz-bassist-in-history-411828|title=Ron Carter earns world record as the most recorded jazz bassist in history|date=January 7, 2016|author1=Rachel Swatman|publisher=[[Guinness Book of World Records]]|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> He has won three [[Grammy Awards]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2019-11-19|title=Ron Carter|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/ron-carter|access-date=2020-07-13|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en}}</ref> and is also a [[Cello|cellist]] who has recorded numerous times on the instrument.<ref name="wynn">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ron-carter-mn0000275832/biography |title=Ron Carter Biography |last=Wynn |first=Ron |website=AllMusic |access-date=October 26, 2020}}</ref> In addition to a solo career of more than 60 years, Carter is well-known for playing on numerous iconic [[Blue Note]] albums in the 1960s, as well as being the anchor of trumpeter [[Miles Davis]]'s "[[Miles Davis Quintet#Second Great Quintet|Second Great Quintet]]" from 1963-1968.<ref>{{cite web|title=A tribute from the anchor|work=Los Angeles Times|date=August 11, 2007 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-11-et-carter11-story.html|accessdate=April 23, 2024}}</ref>
'''Ronald Levin Carter''' (born May 4, 1937)<ref name="feather">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Feather |first1=Leonard |last2=Gitler |first2=Ira |title=Carter, Ron (Ronald Levin) |encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz |date=1999 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=New York |pages=115}}</ref> is an American [[jazz]] [[double bassist]]. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/1/ron-carter-earns-world-record-as-the-most-recorded-jazz-bassist-in-history-411828|title=Ron Carter earns world record as the most recorded jazz bassist in history|date=January 7, 2016|author1=Rachel Swatman|publisher=[[Guinness Book of World Records]]|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> He has won three [[Grammy Awards]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2019-11-19|title=Ron Carter|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/ron-carter|access-date=2020-07-13|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en}}</ref> and is also a [[Cello|cellist]] who has recorded numerous times on the instrument.<ref name="wynn">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ron-carter-mn0000275832/biography |title=Ron Carter Biography |last=Wynn |first=Ron |website=AllMusic |access-date=October 26, 2020}}</ref> In addition to a solo career of more than 60 years, Carter is well-known for playing on numerous iconic [[Blue Note]] albums in the 1960s, as well as being the anchor of trumpeter [[Miles Davis]]'s "[[Miles Davis Quintet#Second Great Quintet|Second Great Quintet]]" from 1963-1968.<ref>{{cite web|title=A tribute from the anchor|work=Los Angeles Times|date=August 11, 2007 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-11-et-carter11-story.html|accessdate=April 23, 2024}}</ref>


Beginning with ''[[Where? (album)|Where?]]'' in 1961, Carter's studio albums as leader also include ''[[Uptown Conversation]]'' (1969), ''[[Blues Farm]]'' (1973), ''[[All Blues (Ron Carter album)|All Blues]]'' (1973), ''[[Spanish Blue (album)|Spanish Blue]]'' (1974), ''[[Anything Goes (Ron Carter album)|Anything Goes]]'' (1975), ''[[Yellow & Green (Ron Carter album)|Yellow & Green]]'' (1976), ''[[Pastels (album)|Pastels]]'' (1976), ''[[Piccolo (album)|Piccolo]]'' (1977), ''[[Third Plane]]'' (1977), ''[[Peg Leg (album)|Peg Leg]]'' (1978), ''[[A Song for You (Ron Carter album)|A Song for You]]'' (1978), ''[[Etudes (Ron Carter album)|Etudes]]'' (1982), ''[[The Golden Striker]]'' (2003), ''[[Dear Miles]]'' (2006), and ''Ron Carter's Great Big Band'' (2011).
Beginning with ''[[Where? (album)|Where?]]'' in 1961, Carter's studio albums as leader also include ''[[Uptown Conversation]]'' (1969), ''[[Blues Farm]]'' (1973), ''[[All Blues (Ron Carter album)|All Blues]]'' (1973), ''[[Spanish Blue (album)|Spanish Blue]]'' (1974), ''[[Anything Goes (Ron Carter album)|Anything Goes]]'' (1975), ''[[Yellow & Green (Ron Carter album)|Yellow & Green]]'' (1976), ''[[Pastels (album)|Pastels]]'' (1976), ''[[Piccolo (album)|Piccolo]]'' (1977), ''[[Third Plane]]'' (1977), ''[[Peg Leg (album)|Peg Leg]]'' (1978), ''[[A Song for You (Ron Carter album)|A Song for You]]'' (1978), ''[[Etudes (Ron Carter album)|Etudes]]'' (1982), ''[[The Golden Striker]]'' (2003), ''[[Dear Miles]]'' (2006), and ''Ron Carter's Great Big Band'' (2011).
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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 (drummer)|Tony Williams]].<ref name="LarkinJazz">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=78}}</ref> Carter joined Davis's group in 1963, appearing on the album ''[[Seven Steps to Heaven (album)|Seven Steps to Heaven]]''<ref name="LarkinJazz" /> 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<ref name="LarkinJazz" /> (when he was replaced by [[Dave Holland (bassist)|Dave Holland]]), and participated in a couple of studio sessions with Davis in 1969 and 1970.  Although he played [[electric bass]] occasionally during this era of early [[jazz-rock fusion]], he has subsequently stopped playing that instrument, and in the 2000s plays only double bass.
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 (drummer)|Tony Williams]].<ref name="LarkinJazz">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=78}}</ref> Carter joined Davis's group in 1963, appearing on the album ''[[Seven Steps to Heaven (album)|Seven Steps to Heaven]]''<ref name="LarkinJazz" /> 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<ref name="LarkinJazz" /> (when he was replaced by [[Dave Holland (bassist)|Dave Holland]]), and participated in a couple of studio sessions with Davis in 1969 and 1970.  Although he played [[electric bass]] occasionally during this era of early [[jazz-rock fusion]], he has subsequently stopped playing that instrument, and in the 2000s plays only double bass.


Carter also performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the 1960s for [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]].<ref name="LarkinJazz" />  He was a [[sideman]] on many Blue Note recordings of the era, playing with [[Sam Rivers (jazz musician)|Sam Rivers]], [[Freddie Hubbard]], [[Duke Pearson]], [[Lee Morgan]], [[McCoy Tyner]], [[Andrew Hill (jazz musician)|Andrew Hill]], [[Horace Silver]], and others. He also played on soul-pop star [[Roberta Flack]]'s album ''[[First Take (album)|First Take]]'' and [[Gil Scott Heron]]'s ''[[Pieces of a Man]]'', including the iconic bass-line on "[[The Revolution Will Not Be Televised]]".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/27/ron-carter-favorite-recordings-jazz/88483434/ |title=Famed jazz bassist Ron Carter picks 10 faves from his 2,200 recordings|website=[[Detroit Free Press]] |first=Mark |last=Stryker|date=August 27, 2016|access-date=June 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026022422/http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/27/ron-carter-favorite-recordings-jazz/88483434/ |archive-date=October 26, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Carter also performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the 1960s for [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]].<ref name="LarkinJazz" />  He was a [[sideman]] on many Blue Note recordings of the era, playing with [[Sam Rivers (jazz musician)|Sam Rivers]], [[Freddie Hubbard]], [[Duke Pearson]], [[Lee Morgan]], [[McCoy Tyner]], [[Andrew Hill (jazz musician)|Andrew Hill]], [[Horace Silver]], and others. He also played on soul-pop star [[Roberta Flack]]'s album ''[[First Take (album)|First Take]]'' and [[Gil Scott-Heron]]'s ''[[Pieces of a Man]]'', including the iconic bass-line on "[[The Revolution Will Not Be Televised]]".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/27/ron-carter-favorite-recordings-jazz/88483434/ |title=Famed jazz bassist Ron Carter picks 10 faves from his 2,200 recordings|website=[[Detroit Free Press]] |first=Mark |last=Stryker|date=August 27, 2016|access-date=June 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026022422/http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/27/ron-carter-favorite-recordings-jazz/88483434/ |archive-date=October 26, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


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 1970s and 1980s included [[Joe Henderson]], [[Houston Person]], [[Hank Jones]], [[Gabor Szabo]] and [[Cedar Walton]].  During the 1970s he was a member of the [[New York Jazz Quartet]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/new-york-jazz-quartet-mn0000398904/biography|title=New York Jazz Quartet &#124; Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=July 25, 2021}}</ref> In 1986, Carter played double bass on "[[Big Man on Mulberry Street]]" on [[Billy Joel]]'s album ''[[The Bridge (Billy Joel album)|The Bridge]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-bridge-mw0000194333/credits|title=The Bridge - Billy Joel &#124; Credits |website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=July 25, 2021}}</ref> In 1987, Carter won a Grammy for "an instrumental composition for the film" ''[[Round Midnight (film)|Round Midnight]]''.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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 1970s and 1980s included [[Joe Henderson]], [[Houston Person]], [[Hank Jones]], [[Gabor Szabo]] and [[Cedar Walton]].  During the 1970s he was a member of the [[New York Jazz Quartet]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/new-york-jazz-quartet-mn0000398904/biography|title=New York Jazz Quartet &#124; Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=July 25, 2021}}</ref> In 1986, Carter played double bass on "[[Big Man on Mulberry Street]]" on [[Billy Joel]]'s album ''[[The Bridge (Billy Joel album)|The Bridge]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-bridge-mw0000194333/credits|title=The Bridge - Billy Joel &#124; Credits |website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=July 25, 2021}}</ref> In 1987, Carter won a Grammy for "an instrumental composition for the film" ''[[Round Midnight (film)|Round Midnight]]''.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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In 1994, he won his second [[Grammy Award]] for Best Jazz Instrumental Group for a tribute album to Miles Davis.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-11-28|title=37th Annual GRAMMY Awards|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/37th-annual-grammy-awards-1994|access-date=2020-07-13|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en}}</ref> He appeared 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".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Ron Carter and the Low End Theory|url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/10137113/ron-carter-and-the-low-end-theory|access-date=2020-07-13|website=KQED|date=June 4, 2014 |language=en-us}}</ref> Carter also recorded as a member of the jazz combo [[the Classical Jazz Quartet]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Classical Jazz Quartet Catalog|url=https://www.jazzdisco.org/the-classical-jazz-quartet/catalog/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=www.jazzdisco.org}}</ref> In 1994, Carter appeared on the [[Red Hot Organization]]'s compilation album, ''[[Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kohlhaase|first=Bill|date=1994-12-16|title=ALBUM REVIEW : VARIOUS ARTISTS, "Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool" ( GRP ) ***|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-16-ca-9815-story.html|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> 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)|TIME]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=1994-12-26|title=The Best Music of 1994|language=en-US|magazine=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982060,00.html|access-date=2020-07-13|issn=0040-781X}}</ref>  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]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Red Hot {{!}} Red Hot + Indigo|url=https://redhot.org/project/red-hot-indigo/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=redhot.org|language=en}}</ref>
In 1994, he won his second [[Grammy Award]] for Best Jazz Instrumental Group for a tribute album to Miles Davis.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-11-28|title=37th Annual GRAMMY Awards|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/37th-annual-grammy-awards-1994|access-date=2020-07-13|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en}}</ref> He appeared 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".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Ron Carter and the Low End Theory|url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/10137113/ron-carter-and-the-low-end-theory|access-date=2020-07-13|website=KQED|date=June 4, 2014 |language=en-us}}</ref> Carter also recorded as a member of the jazz combo [[the Classical Jazz Quartet]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Classical Jazz Quartet Catalog|url=https://www.jazzdisco.org/the-classical-jazz-quartet/catalog/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=www.jazzdisco.org}}</ref> In 1994, Carter appeared on the [[Red Hot Organization]]'s compilation album, ''[[Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kohlhaase|first=Bill|date=1994-12-16|title=ALBUM REVIEW : VARIOUS ARTISTS, "Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool" ( GRP ) ***|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-16-ca-9815-story.html|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> 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)|TIME]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=1994-12-26|title=The Best Music of 1994|language=en-US|magazine=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982060,00.html|access-date=2020-07-13|issn=0040-781X}}</ref>  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]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Red Hot {{!}} Red Hot + Indigo|url=https://redhot.org/project/red-hot-indigo/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=redhot.org|language=en}}</ref>


Beginning in the 1990s, Carter became a Distinguished [[Professor Emeritus]] of the music department of [[City College of New York]], having taught there for 20 years,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jazz Studies at City College|url=https://jazz.ccnysites.cuny.edu/history/|website=Jazz at City History|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> and received an honorary doctorate from the [[Berklee College of Music]] in spring 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berklee.edu/about/honorary.html|title=Honorary Degree Recipients &#124; Berklee College of Music|website=Berklee.edu|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref> He joined the faculty of the [[Juilliard School]] in New York City in 2008, teaching bass in the school's Jazz Studies program.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-12-24|title=Ron Carter|url=http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/ron-carter|access-date=2020-07-13|website=The Juilliard School|language=en}}</ref> Carter made an appearance in [[Robert Altman]]'s 1996 film, ''[[Kansas City (film)|Kansas City]]'', at the center of which is a jazz club called the Hey Hey Club.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/kansas-city-124362/|title=Kansas City|first=Peter|last=Travers|website=[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]|date=August 16, 1996|access-date=January 21, 2024}}</ref> The film's end credits feature Carter and fellow bassist [[Christian McBride]] duetting on "[[(In My) Solitude|Solitude]]"<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rosenbaum|first=Jonathan|title=Let the Music Do the Talking|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/let-the-music-do-the-talking/Content?oid=896246|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Chicago Reader|date=May 7, 1998|language=en}}</ref> at the club, owned by a black gangster called Seldom Seen, who was played by a "show-stealing" [[Harry Belafonte]].<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/kansascitykemp.htm|title= 'Kansas City': All Over the Map|first=Rita|last=Kempley|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|date=August 16, 1996}}</ref> (In a 2023 tribute, Carter would reveal how it came about that Belafonte had been his landlord.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FYORekrBLo|title=Ron Carter - Tribute to Harry Belafonte|date=July 28, 2023|via=YouTube}}</ref>)
Beginning in the 1990s, Carter became a Distinguished [[Professor Emeritus]] of the music department of [[City College of New York]], having taught there for 20 years,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jazz Studies at City College|url=https://jazz.ccnysites.cuny.edu/history/|website=Jazz at City History|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> and received an honorary doctorate from the [[Berklee College of Music]] in spring 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.berklee.edu/about/honorary.html|title=Honorary Degree Recipients &#124; Berklee College of Music|website=Berklee.edu|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref> He joined the faculty of the [[Juilliard School]] in New York City in 2008, teaching bass in the school's Jazz Studies program.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-12-24|title=Ron Carter|url=http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/ron-carter|access-date=2020-07-13|website=The Juilliard School|language=en}}</ref> Carter made an appearance in [[Robert Altman]]'s 1996 film, ''[[Kansas City (film)|Kansas City]]'', at the center of which is a jazz club called the Hey Hey Club.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/kansas-city-124362/|title=Kansas City|first=Peter|last=Travers|website=[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]|date=August 16, 1996|access-date=January 21, 2024}}</ref> The film's end credits feature Carter and fellow bassist [[Christian McBride]] duetting on "[[(In My) Solitude|Solitude]]"<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rosenbaum|first=Jonathan|title=Let the Music Do the Talking|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/let-the-music-do-the-talking/Content?oid=896246|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Chicago Reader|date=May 7, 1998|language=en}}</ref> at the club, owned by a black gangster called Seldom Seen, who was played by a "show-stealing" [[Harry Belafonte]].<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/kansascitykemp.htm|title= 'Kansas City': All Over the Map|first=Rita|last=Kempley|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|date=August 16, 1996}}</ref> (In a 2023 tribute, Carter would reveal how it came about that Belafonte had been his landlord.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FYORekrBLo|title=Ron Carter - Tribute to Harry Belafonte|date=July 28, 2023|via=YouTube}}</ref>)


Carter sits on the advisory committee of the board of directors of The [[Jazz Foundation of America]] and on the Honorary Founder's Committee.<ref name="Ron Carter and the JFA">{{cite web|url=http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page%3Dstorfer.html|title=Archived copy|access-date=October 13, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713104437/http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=storfer.html|archive-date=July 13, 2011}}</ref> Carter 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]].<ref name="Ron Carter_ JFA Board">Pt. 2 Jazz Angels Jazz Foundation of America's Wendy Oxenhorn on HammondCast KYOURADIO.</ref>
Carter sits on the advisory committee of the board of directors of The [[Jazz Foundation of America]] and on the Honorary Founder's Committee.<ref name="Ron Carter and the JFA">{{cite web|url=http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page%3Dstorfer.html|title=Archived copy|access-date=October 13, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713104437/http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=storfer.html|archive-date=July 13, 2011}}</ref> Carter 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]].<ref name="Ron Carter_ JFA Board">Pt. 2 Jazz Angels Jazz Foundation of America's Wendy Oxenhorn on HammondCast KYOURADIO.</ref>

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Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937)[1] is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history.[2] He has won three Grammy Awards,[3] and is also a cellist who has recorded numerous times on the instrument.[4] In addition to a solo career of more than 60 years, Carter is well-known for playing on numerous iconic Blue Note albums in the 1960s, as well as being the anchor of trumpeter Miles Davis's "Second Great Quintet" from 1963-1968.[5]

Beginning with Where? in 1961, Carter's studio albums as leader also include Uptown Conversation (1969), Blues Farm (1973), All Blues (1973), Spanish Blue (1974), Anything Goes (1975), Yellow & Green (1976), Pastels (1976), Piccolo (1977), Third Plane (1977), Peg Leg (1978), A Song for You (1978), Etudes (1982), The Golden Striker (2003), Dear Miles (2006), and Ron Carter's Great Big Band (2011).

Early life

Carter was born in Ferndale, Michigan.[1] At the age of 10, he started playing the cello, switching to bass while at Cass Technical High School.[4] He earned a B.A. in music from the Eastman School of Music (1959) and a master's degree in music from the Manhattan School of Music (1961).[1] While at Eastman, Carter began the shift from classical to jazz when he, Pee Wee Ellis and other friends put together a house band to play at the Pythodd Room, a club on Clarissa Street in segregated Rochester, where he met players on the Chitlin Circuit who encouraged him to go to New York City.[6][7][8]

Carter's first jobs as a jazz musician were playing bass with Chico Hamilton in 1959, followed by freelance work with Jaki Byard, Cannonball Adderley, Randy Weston, Bobby Timmons, and Thelonious Monk.[1] One of his first recorded appearances was on Hamilton alumnus Eric Dolphy's Out There, recorded on August 15, 1960, and featuring George Duvivier on bass, Roy Haynes on drums, and Carter on cello. The album's advanced harmonies and concepts were in step with the third stream movement.[9] In early October 1960, Carter recorded How Time Passes with Don Ellis, and on June 20, 1961, he recorded Where?, his first album as a leader, featuring Dolphy on alto sax, flute, and bass clarinet; Mal Waldron on piano; Charlie Persip on drums; and Duvivier playing basslines on tracks where Carter played cello.

Career

1960s–1980s

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.[10] Carter joined Davis's group in 1963, appearing on the album Seven Steps to Heaven[10] and the follow-up 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[10] (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 era of early jazz-rock fusion, he has subsequently stopped playing that instrument, and in the 2000s plays only double bass.

Carter also performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the 1960s for Blue Note.[10] 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. He also played on soul-pop star Roberta Flack's album First Take and Gil Scott-Heron's Pieces of a Man, including the iconic bass-line on "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".[11]

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 1970s and 1980s included Joe Henderson, Houston Person, Hank Jones, Gabor Szabo and Cedar Walton. During the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet.[12] In 1986, Carter played double bass on "Big Man on Mulberry Street" on Billy Joel's album The Bridge.[13] In 1987, Carter won a Grammy for "an instrumental composition for the film" Round Midnight.[3]

1990s–2000s

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Carter performing at the European Jazz Expò 2007

In 1994, he won his second Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Group for a tribute album to Miles Davis.[14] He appeared 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".[15] Carter also recorded as a member of the jazz combo the Classical Jazz Quartet.[16] In 1994, Carter appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool.[17] 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.[18] In 2001, Carter collaborated with Black Star and John Patton to record "Money Jungle" for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington.[19]

Beginning in the 1990s, Carter became a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the music department of City College of New York, having taught there for 20 years,[20] and received an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music in spring 2005.[21] He joined the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City in 2008, teaching bass in the school's Jazz Studies program.[22] Carter made an appearance in Robert Altman's 1996 film, Kansas City, at the center of which is a jazz club called the Hey Hey Club.[23] The film's end credits feature Carter and fellow bassist Christian McBride duetting on "Solitude"[24] at the club, owned by a black gangster called Seldom Seen, who was played by a "show-stealing" Harry Belafonte.[25] (In a 2023 tribute, Carter would reveal how it came about that Belafonte had been his landlord.[26])

Carter sits on the advisory committee of the board of directors of The Jazz Foundation of America and on the Honorary Founder's Committee.[27] Carter 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.[28]

Carter appeared as himself in an episode of the HBO series Treme entitled "What Is New Orleans".[15] His authorized biography, Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes (Template:ISBN), by Dan Ouellette, was published by ArtistShare in 2008.[29]

2010s and later

In 2010, Carter was honored with France's premier cultural award, the medallion and title of Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[30] Carter was elected to the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame in 2012.[31]

In August 2021, Carter was the featured guest in a 47-minute video interview with YouTuber and musician Rick Beato.[32][33] In November 2021, the Japanese government honored Carter with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. Japanese officials credited Carter with helping to popularize jazz in Japan and facilitating cultural exchange.[34] In April 2022 Carter sat in with Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall.[35] In May 2022, Carter celebrated his birthday by releasing a Tiny Desk Concert recorded at the Blue Note Jazz Club featuring Russell Malone and Donald Vega.[36]

Carter continues to record as a sideman, most recently appearing on Daniele Cordisco's 2023 album "Bitter Head."[37] In August 2024 he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame[38]

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Carter at George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 2009, Newport, Rhode Island

Documentary films

Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes is a documentary film about Carter's career,[39] produced and directed by Peter Schnall.[40] It was released in November of 2022 on PBS.

Personal life

Carter was married to Janet Hasbrouck Carter, a champion of African and African-American art; she died in 2000.[41] He had two sons, Ron Carter Jr and Myles Carter who was a painter and graffiti artist. [42] Myles’ death, from a stroke, is discussed in Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes.

Discography

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Filmography

References

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External links

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