1 3 Ron Carter

Ron Carter - Dear Miles (2006) {Blue Note 92547}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 318 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 126 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 34 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2006 Blue Note | 0946 3 92547 2 9
Jazz / Post Bop / Bass

Although he has participated in a couple of Miles Davis tribute bands and Herbie Hancock's V.S.O.P., Ron Carter always resisted leading a CD of Davis tunes, until this project. Actually only seven of the ten songs that are performed by Carter's quartet on Dear Miles were associated with the trumpeter (not the two Carter originals or "As Time Goes By"), and "Bags' Groove" is a bit borderline. In any case, there are no trumpeters emulating Miles and these versions rarely hint at Davis' versions.

Ron Carter - Ron Carter's Great Big Band (2011) {Sunnyside}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG -> 361 Mb
Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 13 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2011 Sunnyside / Crazy Scot Rec. | SSC 1293
Jazz / Modern Big Band

Ron Carter is one of the most recorded bassists in jazz. In his mid-seventies at the time of these sessions, he is very much still at the top of his game as he leads the first big-band date of his own, with potent arrangements by conductor Robert M. Freedman and including some of New York's busiest musicians, including Jerry Dodgion, Steve Wilson, Wayne Escoffery, and Scott Robinson in the woodwind section, brass players Steve Davis, Douglas Purviance, and Greg Gisbert, plus pianist Mulgrew Miller and drummer Lewis Nash, among others.

This Is Jazz represents the third collaboration for the Harrison/Carter/Cobham trio. Heroes (2004) and New York Cool: Live At The Blue Note (2005) were acclaimed releases, and established a chemistry among these veterans. Their first encounter was on 2002’s Art Of Four.

The strings vibrate gently. Accurate tone, unconditionally clear. And quietly. The longest ngers of jazz seem to dance weightlessly along the wooden bridge; yearning, ligree and elegant. No one else sounds like Ron Carter. His double bass often produces a crisp groove like an electric bass, yet it is always clearly de nable as the sound of a classical music instrument. Then the sound under the scorpion-like hands irresistibly swells. Payton Crossley gently caresses the cymbal, and Jimmy Green, the „new member“ on the tenor saxophone as well as pianist Renee Rosnes push the chorus onto the nely crocheted rhythm cover. “With us, nobody knows exactly what happens when,” Carter praised the Foursight Quartet‘s unique selling point. “This is precisely why every concert is a real challenge. We almost always play 35 to 40 minutes without a stop at the beginning. No breaks, just slight changes that show the beginning of a new song.

Let's not mince words. Everything you want from a great jazz trio recording -electricity, pacing, innovation, dynamic virtuosity and interplay, flights of fancy and passion -are found in great abundance on Emmet Cohen's newest Master Legacy Series Volume 2.

Ron Carter - 1+3 (1978) {JVC Japan VDJ-1032 rel 1986}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 239 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 110 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 6 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1978, 1986 JVC / Victor Japan | VDJ-1032
Jazz / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Bass

Exactly the kind of impressive, high level playing and interaction you'd expect from this trio. Pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams comprised the rhythm section on many '60s Miles Davis classics; nearly three decades later, they're still in sync with each other. While it's Carter's session, there's really no leader or followers, just three wonderful musicians fully attuned to each other.