Ron Casing

Ron Carter is a Contrebassiste of American Jazz born the May 4th 1937 with Ferndale in the State of the Michigan. The its single of its Music and its famous swaying walks made of him a legendary figure of the Jazz as well as a accomplished Musicien. Its contributions on more than 2,500 albums do of it one of the Contrebassiste S the most recorded history of the Jazz. Ron Carter became famous while playing with Miles Davis.

Its beginnings

It is at the 10 years age that Ron Carter starts to play of the Violoncelle. When its family moves in the town of Détroit to the Michigan, he knows urban violence and is confronted with the racist stereotypes which preach the American musical class at its time. He then decides to turn to the double bass. Casing between studying with the history Case Technical High School and plays with the philharmonic orchestra of the Eastman School off Music. In 1959, it receives its license of graduate in arts as well as a license of control in violoncello in 1961 has master' S off dismantles in low double performance of the Manhattan School Music. It gives its first perfomances as musician of professional jazz with Jaki Byard and Chico Hamilton. During this period, it records its first successes with Eric Dolphy (another member of the famous Hamilton group) and Don Elect, in 1960. Casing also works with Randy Weston, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley and finally Art Farmer.

Its career

After leaving Davis, Carter was for several years has mainstay off CTI Records, making albums under his own name and also appearing one many off the label' S records with has various arranges off 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 Philips, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Kenny Burrell, Chet Baker and many others.

Casing 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 ace has bandleader.

He appears one the alternate hip-hop group has Tribe Called Quest 'S influential album Low End Theory.

Casing was Distinguished Professor Emeritus off the Music Department off The City College off New York, having taught there for eighteen years, and received year honorary Doctorate from the Berklee College off Music, in Spring 2004.

Casing has niece, through his sister, who works ace has morning anchor one the CBS Hartford, CT affiliate WFSB-TV3.

Anecdotes

Ron Carter smoked the pipe and one could see it in some publicities for pipes, lines of clothing or low.

Partial discography

- As musician soloist

Yellow & Green
Pastels
Anything Goes
Piccolo
Low and I
Stardust
The Golden delicious Striker
Orfeu
Telepathy
New York Slick
Blues Farm
Standard Bearers
Jazz, My Romance
When Ski 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
has Song For You
Brandenburg Concerto
Live At The Village Vanguard
Eight More
Where?

- As collaborator musician -

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Travels, Speak Like has Child, V.S.O.P., Empyrean Isles, Third Plane
Joe Henderson - Power To The People
Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Song Swing, Contours
Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960)
Andrew Hill - Fatty Roots, Lift Every Voice, Passing Ships
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Wes Montgomery - So Much Guitar (1961)
Oliver Nelson - Sound Pieces
Miles Davis - Calm Nights (1962), Furnace and More, My Funny Valentine, Live At the Plugged Nickel, Miles Spalling hammers, ESP, Miles In the Sky, Seven Steps To Heaven, The Sorcerer, Toilets 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), Calm 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 Travels (2006)

See too

External bonds

Official site of Ron Casing

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