Jazz Articles about Ron Carter

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McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner: Extensions

by Chris May
December 13, 2011

Languishing off-catalogue for many years, McCoy Tyner's Extensions may be the pianist's most unjustly neglected album. Strange days, for not only is the music ineffably vibrant, but Extensions is the only recording ever to feature Tyner alongside pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, who replaced him in saxophonist John Coltrane's group in 1966. The album has one foot in the echoes of John Coltrane's “classic quartet," of which Tyner was a member from 1960-65, and the other in the astral jazz ...

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Donald Harrison: This Is Jazz

by Greg Simmons
August 28, 2011

Saxophonist Donald Harrison's name is writ large on the cover of This Is Jazz, but the album is a collaborative trio in every sense. After all, playing with legendary bassist Ron Carter and drummer extraordinaire Billy Cobham could never be equated with simply hiring sidemen. Recorded live at New York's Blue Note, the six tracks on this album take post- bop expansion to exemplary heights and keep it there for the duration. Harrison has a tight but wandering ...

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Ron Carter: All Blues

by John Kelman
February 4, 2011

In the 1960s and 1970s, few bassists were as ubiquitous as Ron Carter, from the experimental post/free bop of trumpeter Miles Davis's 1960s quintet to straight-ahead swing with guitarist Kenny Burrell and the greater extremes of saxophonist Archie Shepp. With the emergence of CTI Records, Carter became something of a house bassist for the label; on the recent four-CD retrospective box that launched CTI Masterworks, 2010's CTI Records--The Cool Revolution, the bassist appears on no less than 29 of its ...

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Jim Hall: Concierto

by John Kelman
February 3, 2011

Amongst the many CTI classics of the 1970s, few stand the test of time as well as guitarist Jim Hall's Concierto, an ambitious album that, in its original form, married one side of modern mainstream with a second taken up by a 19-minute version of Joaquin Rodrigo's 1939 piece for classical guitar and orchestra, “Concierto de Aranjuez." That Miles Davis and Gil Evans had already delivered what was considered the definitive jazz adaptation on the trumpeter's 1960 classic, Sketches of ...

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Ron Carter: Super Sideman

by Ken Dryden
November 7, 2009

Attila Zoller/Ron Carter/Joe Chambers Common Cause Enja 2009 Sadao Watanabe with the Great Jazz Trio I'm Old Fashioned Test of Time 2009

Ron Carter has long been one of the most in-demand bassists, a talented player in both jazz and classical music. He has appeared on hundreds of recording sessions during the last five decades, ...

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Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes

by Florence Wetzel
October 4, 2009

Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes Dan Ouellette 435 pagesISBN: 978-0-615-26526-1 ArtistShare 2008 The biography of bassist Ron Carter possesses everything one could desire: an introduction by noted jazz writer Nat Hentoff, a judicious discography, copious photographs, and a stream of well-researched facts and anecdotes about Carter and his 50+ years as a professional musician. Born May 4th, 1937 in Ferndale, Michigan, Carter started cello lessons at age ten, then ...

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Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
August 24, 2009

Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes Dan Ouellette 435 pagesISBN: 978-0-615-26526-1 ArtistShare 2008 Songwriter and vocalist Gil Scott-Heron said that his basslines “glowed in the dark." Trumpeter Miles Davis proclaimed him the “anchor" of his groundbreaking quintet of the 1960s. And he literally laid down the groove for the Tribe Called Quest's hip-hop classic, “The Low End Theory." From 1960 to 2009, whether the music is rock, pop, bop, post-bop, ...