Ron Carter
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Ron Carter est un contrebassiste de jazz américain né le 4 mai 1937 à Ferndale dans l'État du Michigan. Le son unique de sa musique et ses fameux déhanchements ont fait de lui une figure légendaire du jazz ainsi qu'un musicien accompli. Ses contributions sur plus de 2,500 albums en font l'un des contrebassistes les plus enregistrés de l'histoire du jazz. Ron Carter est devenu célèbre en jouant avec Miles Davis.
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C'est à l'âge de 10 ans que Ron Carter commence à jouer du violoncelle. Lorsque sa famille déménage dans la ville de Détroit au Michigan, il connaît la violence urbaine et est confronté aux stéréotypes racistes que prêchent la classe musicale américaine à son époque. Il décide alors de se tourner vers la contrebasse. Carter entre étudier à l'historique Cass Technical High School et joue avec l'orchestre philharmonique de la Eastman School of Music. En 1959, il reçoit sa licence de bachelier en arts ainsi qu'une licence de maîtrise en violoncelle en 1961 a master's degree in double bass performance de la Manhattan School of Music. Il donne ses premières perfomances à titre de musicien de jazz professionnel avec Jaki Byard et Chico Hamilton. Durant cette période, il enregistre ses premiers succès avec Eric Dolphy (un autre membre du célèbre groupe Hamilton) et Don Ellis, en 1960. Carter travaille également avec Randy Weston, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley et enfin Art Farmer.
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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. Carter joined Davis's group in 1963, appearing on the album Seven Steps to Heaven and the follow-up E.S.P.. The latter was the first album to feature the full quintet, and also featured three of Carter's compositions (the only time he contributed compositions to Davis's group). He stayed with Davis's regular group until 1968 (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 period, he has subsequently eschewed that instrument entirely, and now plays only acoustic bass.
Carter also performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the sixties for Blue Note Records. He was a sideman on many Blue Note recordings of the era, playing with Sam Rivers, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill and others.
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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, including Wes Montgomery, Herbie Mann, Paul Desmond, George Benson, Jim Hall, Nat Adderley, Antonio Carlos Jobim, J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding, Eumir Deodato, Esther Phillips, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Kenny Burrell, Chet Baker and many others.
Carter has also performed and recorded with Billy Cobham, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, 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.
Carter was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Music Department of The City College of New York, having taught there for eighteen years, and received an honorary Doctorate from the Berklee College of Music, in Spring 2004.
Carter has a niece, through his sister, who works as a morning anchor on the CBS Hartford, CT affiliate WFSB-TV3.
[modifier] Anecdotes
- Ron Carter fumait la pipe et on a pu le voir dans quelques publicités pour pipes, lignes de vêtement ou basses.
[modifier] Discographie partielle
- À titre de musicien soliste-
- Yellow & Green
- Pastels
- Anything Goes
- Piccolo
- Bass and I
- Stardust
- The Golden Striker
- Orfeu
- Telepathy
- New York Slick
- Blues Farm
- Standard Bearers
- Jazz, My Romance
- When Skies Are Grey
- Friends
- Holiday In Rio
- Mr. Bow Tie
- Ron Carter Plays Bach
- Uptown Conversation
- Carnival
- So What
- Peg Leg
- Meets Bach
- Spanish Blue
- Patrao
- Parade
- Guitar & Bass
- A Song For You
- Brandenburg Concerto
- Live At The Village Vanguard
- Eight Plus
- Where ?
- À titre de musicien collaborateur -
- Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage, Speak Like A Child, V.S.O.P., Empyrean Isles, Third Plane
- Joe Henderson - Power To The People
- Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song, Contours
- Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960)
- Andrew Hill - Grass Roots, Lift Every Voice, Passing Ships
- Bobby Hutcherson - Components
- Wes Montgomery - So Much Guitar (1961)
- Oliver Nelson - Sound Pieces
- Miles Davis - Quiet Nights (1962), Four and More, My Funny Valentine, Live At the Plugged Nickel, Miles Smiles, ESP, Miles In the Sky, Seven Steps To Heaven, The Sorcerer, Water Babies
- Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1964), The All Seeing Eye
- McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy, Expansions, Trident, Counterpoints, Supertrios, Extensions (1970)
- Quincy Jones - Gula Matari (1970)
- Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (1970)
- Donald Byrd - Electric Byrd (1970)
- Roberta Flack - First Take (1970), Quiet Fire (1971), Killing Me Softly (1973)
- Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973)
- The Wiz (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1978)
- Jim Hall - Alone Together (1986)
- Twin Peaks (Television Series, 2nd Season) (1990)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1993)
- Austin Peralta - Maiden Voyage (2006)
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