1. Ronald Levin Carter was born on May 4,1937 and is an American jazz double bassist.
26 Facts About Ron Carter
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Ron Carter has won three Grammy Awards, and is a cellist who has recorded numerous times on the instrument.
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Ron Carter's father was a bus driver for the city of Detroit.
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Ron Carter was a member of the second Miles Davis Quintet in the mid 1960s, which included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and drummer Tony Williams.
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Ron Carter stayed with Davis until 1968, and participated in a couple of studio sessions with Davis in 1969 and 1970.
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Ron Carter performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the 1960s for Blue Note.
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Ron Carter was a sideman on many Blue Note recordings of the era, playing with Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Duke Pearson, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Horace Silver, and others.
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Ron Carter played on soul-pop star Roberta Flack's album First Take and Gil Scott Heron's Pieces of a Man, including the iconic bass-line on "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".
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In 1986, Ron Carter played double bass on "Big Man on Mulberry Street" on Billy Joel's album The Bridge.
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In 1987, Ron Carter won a Grammy for "an instrumental composition for the film" Round Midnight.
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Ron Carter appeared on the alternative hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest's influential album The Low End Theory on a track called "Verses from the Abstract".
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Ron Carter recorded as a member of the jazz combo the Classical Jazz Quartet.
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In 1994, Ron Carter appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool.
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In 2001, Ron Carter collaborated with Black Star and John Patton to record "Money Jungle" for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington.
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Ron Carter joined the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City in 2008, teaching bass in the school's Jazz Studies program.
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Ron Carter made an appearance in Robert Altman's 1996 film, Kansas City, at the center of which is a jazz club called the Hey Hey Club.
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Ron Carter sits on the advisory committee of the board of directors of The Jazz Foundation of America and on the Honorary Founder's Committee.
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Ron Carter has worked with the Jazz Foundation since its inception to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians including musicians that survived Hurricane Katrina.
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Ron Carter appeared as himself in an episode of the HBO series Treme entitled "What Is New Orleans".
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In 2010, Ron Carter was honored with France's premier cultural award, the medallion and title of Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Ron Carter was elected to the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Japanese officials credited Ron Carter with helping to popularize jazz in Japan and facilitating cultural exchange.
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In May 2022, Ron Carter celebrated his birthday by releasing a Tiny Desk Concert recorded at the Blue Note Jazz Club featuring Russell Malone and Donald Vega.
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Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes is a documentary film about Carter's career, produced and directed by Peter Schnall.
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Ron Carter was married to Janet Hasbrouck Ron Carter, a champion of African and African-American art; she died in 2000.
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Ron Carter had two sons, Ron Carter Jr and Myles Carter who was a painter and graffiti artist.