Ron Carter

Ron Carter New Jazz Trio And Foursight Quartet At Birdland

by Paul Reynolds
October 31, 2025

Ron Carter New Jazz Trio and Foursight Quartet Birdland New York, NYOctober 16 and 23, 2025 Ron Carter turned 88 in May, 2025. That fact is hard to reconcile with the continuing vitality and frequency of his performances, including those with two small groups at Birdland Jazz Club this month--as part of his customary October residency at the midtown Manhattan venue. Carter's age was underlined, though, by an anecdote he told after ...

McCoy Tyner Quartet: New York Reunion

by Jack Kenny
October 25, 2025

McCoy Tyner's New York Reunion is a fine example of late-period recording, presenting the jazz masters in a quartet setting that draws deeply on tradition while brimming with contemporary energy. Originally released in 1991 on Chesky Records, the album features Tyner at the piano alongside three equally distinguished collaborators: Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone), Ron Carter (bass) and Al Foster (drums). The title itself hints at a reconvening of New York's post-bop elite, each artist bringing decades of innovation to the ...

Mark Sherman: Bop Contest

by Jack Bowers
October 23, 2025

Following four well-received albums on which he played piano, the versatile Mark Sherman has placed the keyboard in the capable hands of Donald Vega and returned to his main instrument, the vibraphone, for the eloquent and delightful Bop Contest, Sherman's twenty-second recording in a prestigious career that has spanned nearly half a century. Although Sherman has shared the studio with a who's who of renowned bassists, he had never released an album, until now, with the Hall ...

Ron Carter's Foursight Quartet at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
September 23, 2025

Ron Carter's Foursight Quartet Miner Auditorium / SFJAZZ CenterSan Francisco, CA September 19, 2025 After a 50-minute opener with no introductions, Ron Carter took the microphone, smiled, and deadpanned, “Thank you and goodnight." A beat later: “I am boss of the microphone." He waved his cuffs toward the band to take a real bow. The joke set the tone. Leadership would not be loud. Time, taste, and the craft of saying exactly what needs to ...

Charlie Rouse: Cinnamon Flower : The Expanded Version

by Pierre Giroux
September 19, 2025

Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition is a reissue of The Charlie Rouse Band's 1977 Brazilian-inspired album originally released by Douglas Records. Now, nearly 50 years later, Resonance Records presents a deluxe, definitive edition of the album featuring previously unreleased versions of the songs from the original release. Recorded during a prolific period in Rouse's post-Thelonious Monk career, this project reveals a rarely heard side of the tenor saxophonist: a rhythmic sensuality and melodic elegance inspired by Brazil's vibrant music scene. ...

Hank Crawford: Help Me Make It Through The Night

by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
July 17, 2025

One of the first artists signed by Creed Taylor for CTI's subsidiary Kudu label, Hank Crawford suffered violent criticism during the period (1971-1978) he recorded  for the label, being accused of making mellow and commercial albums. On the other hand, Hank achieved a new level of popularity during his CTI/Kudu years. Some of the eight albums he cut for the label sold over 100,000 copies with almost no promotion. And his Kudu debut, Help Me Make It Through The Night, ...

Alan Shorter: Mephistopholes to Orgasm Revisited

by Stefano Merighi
June 20, 2025

In questo CD dedicato ad Alan Shorter (tromba, flicorno, composizione) si ripropongono le sedute integrali di Orgasm (1968), precedute però da “Mephistopheles," di tre anni precedente, che figurava nella scaletta di The All Seeing Eye, del più celebre fratello Wayne. È un pezzo di una cupezza angosciante, sostenuto da un pedale ritmico minaccioso, dalle cui spire fioriscono severi interventi dei fiati e delle percussioni. Con i due fratelli Shorter, suonano James Spaulding (alto), Freddie Hubbard (tromba), Grachan Moncur III (trombone), ...

Acclaimed String Quartet ETHEL And Legendary Bassist Ron Carter Present Reflections On Monk And Bach, Zankel Hall At Carnegie Hall, March 13, 2025

Source: AMT Public Relations
December 17, 2024

World premiere performance of MONK SUITE — compositions and arrangements for string quartet and bass featuring the music of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and J. S. Bach String quartet ETHEL ’s Carnegie Hall debut The “avatar of ‘post-classical’ music—the virtuosic string quartet ETHEL (The New Yorker)” and legendary bassist Ron Carter join forces for an unforgettable classical-jazz mashup performance at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.Centered on the music from Monk Suite: Kronos ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ron Carter

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Ron Carter's birthday today!

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music's greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. Ron Graduated the Eastman School in 1959 and packed up his belongings and moved to New York City with his wife, Janet. ...
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Documentary: Ron Carter - Finding the Right Notes

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 22, 2023

Ron Carter got off to a big start. His first recording session was playing bass on Ernie Wilkins's The Big New Band of the '60s, in March and April 1960. The band included Clark Terry (tp,flhrn); Richard Williams and Charlie Shavers (tp); Henderson Chambers (tb); two unknown trombonists; Earle Warren (as); Zoot Sims, Seldon Powell and Yusef Lateef (ts); Eddie Costa (vib); Walter Bishop, Jr. (p); Kenny Burrell (g); Ron Carter (b); Charlie Persip (d) and Ernie Wilkins (arr,dir). Ron ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ron Carter

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Ron Carter's birthday today!

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music's greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy. He ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ron Carter

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Ron Carter's birthday today!

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music's greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy. He ...
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Three-Day HeartH Star Festival:One Streaming Event Begins May 21, 2020!

Source: John Kelman
May 22, 2020

Welcome Aboard HeartH Star Festival:One A unique world-wide music and arts festival! The Hearth Star Festival: One is a live three-day, online festival intended to weave an international array of passionate storytellers, dancers, healers and musicians into a beautiful tapestry of sound, light and color. Please join us at our opening ceremony from the beach in Maui this Thursday, May 21, 2020, and participate in the creation of our collective worldwide tapestry. It’s all too beautiful! Featuring: Ron Carter, Dick ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ron Carter

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Ron Carter's birthday today!

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music's greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy. He ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ron Carter

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Ron Carter's birthday today!

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music\'s greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy... Read ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ron Carter

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Ron Carter's birthday today!

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music\'s greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy... Read ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ron Carter

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Ron Carter's birthday today!

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music\'s greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy... Read ...
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