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Post by Kapitan on Oct 22, 2022 12:20:59 GMT
Ron Carter is one of the greatest bassists of all time. Born in 1937 in Michigan, he is still alive and active. He graduated with a music degree from Eastman, then his master's from the Manhattan School of Music. Before joining Miles Davis's second great quintet in the mid 60s, he had already played with Chico Hamilton, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderly, and others.
Through the years, he has played with everyone who's anyone (and some who aren't) in jazz. He also became a famed educator, teaching music at Julliard and the City College of New York, among others. I have listened to him being interviewed, and he is a very intelligent, articulate, insightful, thoughtful man.
Sound like an obituary? Hardly. Just an intro to this exciting (to me) fact: PBS is running a nearly 2-hour documentary about him. Well deserved!
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 10, 2023 18:49:26 GMT
The Carter documentary I referenced above is available now in full on YouTube. It's a real pleasure to see all that footage of Ron Carter, not to mention all the brilliant musicians talking to and about him.
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Post by jk on Mar 10, 2023 19:55:16 GMT
The Carter documentary I referenced above is available now in full on YouTube. It's a real pleasure to see all that footage of Ron Carter, not to mention all the brilliant musicians talking to and about him. The above video is unavailable, to me at least. I could only find this. You have to click on things and create a free account somewhere. And that's a road I stopped going down long ago. Pity!
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 10, 2023 19:58:05 GMT
It is a pity. I think I've mentioned a number of similar situations with your links, which are unavailable here. I wish we could share more freely across continents.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 8, 2023 17:43:00 GMT
In honor of what would have been the great Wilbur Ware's 100th birthday (he died of emphysema in 1979 at just 56, having lived a life involving heavy narcotics use and incarceration), here is a great blog post (with YouTube examples of his playing) by pianist Ethan Iverson. Ware played with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, and many others. (The article also goes a bit into Charlie Haden, as a successor to Ware.) iverson.substack.com/p/tt-298-wilbur-ware-centennial
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Post by jk on Sept 8, 2023 21:06:08 GMT
In honor of what would have been the great Wilbur Ware's 100th birthday (he died of emphysema in 1979 at just 56, having lived a life involving heavy narcotics use and incarceration), here is a great blog post (with YouTube examples of his playing) by pianist Ethan Iverson. Ware played with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, and many others. (The article also goes a bit into Charlie Haden, as a successor to Ware.) iverson.substack.com/p/tt-298-wilbur-ware-centennialFascinating. I haven't been bitten by that bug but I love reading about jazz people of yesteryear, who they played with and what they played. Monk in particular intrigues me.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 8, 2023 21:08:08 GMT
Monk in particular intrigues me. With Miles Davis and Duke Ellington in the conversation, I have to say Monk rises above them all for me. Such a singular figure.
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