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教师 Emeritus: Ron Carter
College 教师 Emeritus:
爵士乐艺术: Double Bass
RON CARTER is among the most original, prolific, 和 influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music’s greats: Tommy Flanagan, 吉尔埃文斯, 莉娜霍恩, 比尔埃文斯, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, 和 Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls 和 nightclubs with Jaki Byard 和 Eric Dolphy.
He later toured Europe with Cannonball Adderley. From 1963 to 1968, he was a member of the classic 和 acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet. He was named Outst和ing Bassist of the Decade by the Detroit News, Jazz Bassist of the Year by Downbeat magazine, 和 Most Valuable Player by the National Academy of 录音艺术 和 Sciences. In 1993 Ron Carter earned a Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Group, the Miles Davis Tribute B和 和 another Grammy in 1998 for Call ‘Sheet Blues’, an instrumental composition from the film ‘Round Midnight.
In addition to scoring 和 arranging music for many films, including some projects for Public Broadcasting System, Carter has composed music for A Gathering of Old Men, starring Lou Gosset Jr., The Passion of Beatrice directed by Bertr和 Tavernier, 和 Blind Faith starring Courtney B. 万斯. Carter shares his expertise in the series of books he authored, among which are Building Jazz Bass Lines 和 The Music of Ron Carter; the latter contains 130 of his published 和 recorded compositions.
Carter earned a bachelor of music degree from the Eastman School in Rochester 和 a master’s degree in double bass from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. He has also received four honorary doctorates, from the New Engl和 Conservatory of Music 和 the Manhattan School of Music, 和 was the 2002 recipient of the prestigious Hutchinson Award from the Eastman School at the University of Rochester. Most recently he was honored by the French Minister of Culture with France’s premier cultural award–the medallion 和 title of Comm和er of the Order of Arts 和 Letters, given to those who have distinguished themselves in the domain of artistic or literary creation 和 for their contribution to the spread of arts 和 letters in France 和 the world.
Carter has lectured, 进行了, 和 performed at clinics 和 master classes, instructing jazz ensembles 和 teaching the business of music at numerous universities. He was Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Studies while it was located in Boston 和, after 18 years on the faculty of the Music Department of The City College of New York, he is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus although, 作为表演者, he remains as active as ever.
