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Ron Carter

An omnipresent figure on the jazz scene since the early 1960s, legendary bass player Ron Carter has made over 50 albums of his own and played on more than 2,000 recordings by acts as diverse as Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, James Brown and A Tribe Called Quest. Born in Ferndale, Michigan he initially learned to play the cello before taking up the double bass in high school and studying at the Eastmond School of Music in New York in the late 1950s. He made his first records with bebop jazzman Eric Dolphy, but got his big break when he joined the Miles Davis Quintet in 1963 a...