Ron Carter

American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer

Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. He has won three Grammy Awards, and is also a cellist who has recorded numerous times on the instrument. In addition to a solo career of more than 60 years, Carter is well-known for playing on numerous iconic Blue Note albums in the 1960s, as well as being the anchor of trumpeter Miles Davis's "Second Great Quintet" from 1963–1968.

Beginning with Where? in 1961, Carter's studio albums as leader also include Uptown Conversation (1969), Blues Farm (1973), All Blues (1973), Spanish Blue (1974), Anything Goes (1975), Yellow & Green (1976), Pastels (1976), Piccolo (1977), Third Plane (1977), Peg Leg (1978), A Song for You (1978), Etudes (1982), The Golden Striker (2003), Dear Miles (2006), and Ron Carter's Great Big Band (2011).

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Works

The Long LineThe Long Line
  • '1684'
  • 117 Special
  • 12+12
  • 36414
  • 44th Street Suite - Part I
  • 44th Street Suite - Part II
  • 595
  • 81
  • A Hymn for Him
  • A Slight Smile
  • A Small Ballad
  • Ah Rio
  • Alternate Route
  • Aromatic
  • Bass Duet
  • Blues Farm
  • Blues for D.P.
  • Bottoms Up
  • Candle Light
  • Candlelight
  • Cominando
  • Cominando, Reprise
  • Concepts
  • Cut and Paste
  • Desert Lament
  • Doom
  • Double Bass
  • Echoes
  • Eighty-One
  • Einbahnstrasse
  • First Trip
  • For Toddlers Only
  • G.J.T.
  • Gypsy
  • Half a Row
  • Keystone
  • Last Resort
  • Little Waltz
  • Loose Change
  • Mellow Blues
  • Mood
  • Mr. Bow Tie
  • NY Slick
  • Nearly
  • New Waltz
  • Opus One Point Five
  • Quite Place
  • R.J.
  • R2, M1
  • Rally
  • RonJackRuba
  • Rufus
  • Saudade
  • Seguaro
  • Ten Strings
  • Third Plane
  • Tierra Española
  • Two-Beat Johnson
  • Uptown Conversation