Ron Carter: C or D? S/D

Do ilxors still do new classic or dud/ search & destroy threads in this day and age, or is it all polls around here in the 09?

From a quick search, it seems there's never been a Ron Carter thread before, so I'd love to know which of the Low End Theory-guesting bassist's own albums are worthwhile. The only one I've got is Peg Leg, which is pretty hit and miss...

Thi one is pretty sick, his first record as a leader
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2007/12/4/albumcoverRonCarterWhere.jpg

and this
http://www.yastaradio.com/images/stories/Blog/Impulse/0025218675420.jpg

Great interview: http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/27/ron-carter-favorite-recordings-jazz/88483434/

yeah that was a good read. always interesting to read what artist's think of their own work.

Dang, Ron Carter and Mos Def at respective peaks coulda been twins.
http://i.imgur.com/Y0paS60.png

ngl i attempted to start the rumor that ron carter was mos def's father on davey d's hiphop corner message board in 1998

also, thx discogs images for this vintage action that i'd never seen before:
https://i.discogs.com/A-95088-1452436674-9626.jpeg?bucket=discogs-images&fit=contain&format=auto&height=875&quality=90&width=600&signature=wmzc8edoSbfamk%2F4JxhRFaEtFHKy5QdYMxz64aFtHt8%3D

gotta be honest, "cowboy bassman" is a pretty badass title

https://i.discogs.com/A-95088-1452436674-3741.jpeg?bucket=discogs-images&fit=contain&format=auto&height=442&quality=90&width=600&signature=MqgSa6acSBX2%2BOxM%2FisCVAa7kOs7cvVnX%2FRBM5ZpGfo%3D

I def need low end theory instrumentals.

unofficial, but still solid.

Ron Carter is a really cool cat. There are some really good interview videos with him on the internet. Someone needs to just sit with him and have him go through a boodle of those records he recorded and just tap them for how it was recorded and what was the gig like.

Don't scare me like that

Someone needs to

Yes, they do.

Get him and Herbie in a room to just talk. I'd be hanging on every word, but I'm also a person who's seen Ron Carter live more times than I can remember. Fewer things make me happier than the funny bassfaces he makes while taking a solo. The man invented at least seventeen things that are cooler than anything I will ever do. Living legend. If there was a "pope" equivalent of music, I nominate Ron Carter.

(And you should go see him live at every opportunity you get. If you're on the east coast, you have a few coming up.)

Ron's doing some discussion videos himself. That Beato interview really only scratched a surface of items to discuss.

City College of NY should be doing lots of videos with him discussing jazz history, I think they would be enormously popular and of scholarly interest.

tyler actually posted this interview when it came out but it's so nice so i'm reposting it:
https://eu.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/27/ron-carter-favorite-recordings-jazz/88483434/

also here he is with his pipe: he is one of music's great pipeman
https://i.imgur.com/58gMhV9.png

does he still smoke a pipe at the grand age of 85? maybe he's a senior vaper these days! He did one of the most swinging basslines ever on the 2nd track of that album with Waldron/Dolphy which I've forgot the name of.

I saw him talking about the mid 60s Miles Davis Quintet on a documentary on Miles career last week. Wondered about his post Quintet career. Should probably know more about it. I'll probably find out he was a really popular bassist afterwards but not sure what I have heard with him. Don't remember him having his own famous group afterwards which all the others seemed to.
He was saying in that interview that he had been asked by Miles to pick up an electric bass and start playing it but it was a pretty different instrument so he couldn't see why he should. Not sure if he did eventually explore electricity at all. Stand up electric bass is something I have seen in a couple of places. But not sure why he would want to if it didn't initially appeal.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/3626592-Ron-Carter-Cedar-Walton-Duo
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2044268-Ron-Carter-Trio
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2605078-Ron-Carter-Quartet
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1954320-Ron-Carter-Sextet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJifxFWpAg

Wondered about his post Quintet career. Should probably know more about it.

off the top of my head...

Ron Carter / Uptown Conversation
Joe Henderson / Power to the People
Gil Scott Heron / Pieces of a Man
Roberta FLack / First Take
Alice Coltrane / Ptah the El Daoud
Milt JAckson / Sunflower
Roy Ayers / Stoned Soul Picnic
Antonio Carlos Jobim / Wave

and A Tribe Called Quest / Voices from the Abstract, obv.

wikipedia:

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] Carter has three Grammy awards.[3] Carter is also a cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument.[4]

post-miles, he focused on session work. always had his own groups, but it was much lower stakes. if you want to hear his best stuff as a leader, i highly recommend piccolo from 1977 — a live quartet featuring two bassists!

also hbd ron!

i never realized it was carter on ptah the el daoud. nice.

search: cello solo on mal waldron's "duquility" from 1961-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onfTVplYegU

Don't scare me like that

whew, yeah, you had me worried.
his cello work is damn good, thanks for the reminder

lol sorry. no, gratefully. just appreciation.

(those mal waldron prestige collabs albums are all classic, too. especially the ones with ron carter, worth revisiting!)

me sitting here thinking, "dude ron carter is harmless what's jordan's probl--?!!?? ... OOOHHHHH, RIGHT."

Yeah, it's the thread Schrodinger's Cat, esteemed living artists of a certain age you want to talk about but you can't revive a thread because, ironically, everyone will think they died.

One of the pleasures of being in NYC is seeing Carter perform - he's done a LOT of shows here these past few years. When I got to say hello to him, I just remembered how long and graceful his fingers were - they made mine feel stubby and clumsy in comparison. (Ever see that Simpsons episode where Lisa finds out she inherited stubby fingers from Homer, thus dashing her dreams of becoming a jazz musician? That's what it felt like.)

/\/\photo evidence on this album cover:
https://www.discogs.com/master/234055-Ron-Carter-Pick-Em

one of the times i saw him, i remember thinking that his fingers must have extra joints or something.

just some more catalogue appreciation――
if you like accordion (which i completely understand if you don't, i get it), i really recommend the early 90s duets album panamanhattan: https://www.discogs.com/master/1015256-Ron-Carter-and-Richard-Galliano-Panamanhattan

don't know much of galliano outside of this one, but the tunes are mostly originals, wonderfully moody stuff, and he often comes across quite happy in his playing. ron carter mostly playing the support. but when he does take a solo, it's that trademark tone. making it familiar, but not quite.

it's on ron carter's official youtube channel, but i can't find it on north american spotify currently: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxLqEmaBJ4zxX7GW-7TW_GI-m0E2KJIhI&si=nUmXUxnxzTbnDLG2