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Ron Carter (born May 4, 1937, Ferndale
Ferndale, Michigan

Ferndale is a city in Oakland County, Michigan of the U.S. state of Michigan. It forms part of the Metro Detroit. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 22,105....
, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton

Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an United States jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge"....
, Ray Brown
Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown was an United States jazz double bassist. He is considered by many one of the masters of his instrument, as he developed an almost perfect sense of timekeeping and had a hard swing feel to his lines....
 and Leroy Vinnegar
Leroy Vinnegar

Leroy Vinnegar was an United States jazz double bass.Born in Indianapolis, the self-taught Vinnegar established his reputation in Los Angeles during the 1950s and '60s....
. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on cello. He also has recorded a large body of classical work, and he contributed to the film score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
 for Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters

Desperate Characters is a 1971 United States drama film produced, written, and directed by Frank D. Gilroy, who based his screenplay on the 1970 novel of the same name by Paula Fox....
 (1971).

er started to play cello
Cello

The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
 at the age of 10, but when his family moved to Detroit, he ran into difficulties regarding the racial stereotyping
Stereotype

A stereotype is a preconceived idea that attributes certain characteristics to all the members of class or set. The term is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her me...
 of classical musicians and instead moved to bass.






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Ron Carter (born May 4, 1937, Ferndale
Ferndale, Michigan

Ferndale is a city in Oakland County, Michigan of the U.S. state of Michigan. It forms part of the Metro Detroit. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 22,105....
, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton

Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an United States jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge"....
, Ray Brown
Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown was an United States jazz double bassist. He is considered by many one of the masters of his instrument, as he developed an almost perfect sense of timekeeping and had a hard swing feel to his lines....
 and Leroy Vinnegar
Leroy Vinnegar

Leroy Vinnegar was an United States jazz double bass.Born in Indianapolis, the self-taught Vinnegar established his reputation in Los Angeles during the 1950s and '60s....
. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on cello. He also has recorded a large body of classical work, and he contributed to the film score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
 for Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters

Desperate Characters is a 1971 United States drama film produced, written, and directed by Frank D. Gilroy, who based his screenplay on the 1970 novel of the same name by Paula Fox....
 (1971).

Early life and education

Carter started to play cello
Cello

The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
 at the age of 10, but when his family moved to Detroit, he ran into difficulties regarding the racial stereotyping
Stereotype

A stereotype is a preconceived idea that attributes certain characteristics to all the members of class or set. The term is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her me...
 of classical musicians and instead moved to bass. He attended the historic Cass Technical High School
Cass Technical High School

Lewis Cass Technical High School is a four-year high school in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan, United States. The school is named in honor of Lewis Cass, an United States military officer and politician who served as governor of the Michigan Territory from 1813 until 1831....
 where he played in the Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is a music College or university school of music located in Rochester, New York, United States. The Eastman School is the professional school of music associated with the University of Rochester....
's Philharmonic Orchestra. He gained his bachelor's degree in 1959, and in 1961 a master's degree in double bass performance from the Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a world-renowned music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers Academic degrees on the Bachelors degree, Masters degree, and doctoral levels in the areas of european classical music and jazz performance and composition....
.

Career

His first jobs as a jazz musician were with Jaki Byard
Jaki Byard

Jaki Byard was an American jazz piano and composer who also played trumpet and saxophones, among several other instruments. He was noteworthy for his eclectic style, incorporating everything from ragtime and Stride piano to free jazz....
 and Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton

Chico Hamilton is a Jazz drumming and band leader....
. His first records were made with Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy was an American jazz alto saxophone, Western concert flute #In jazz, and bass clarinetist.Dolphy was one of several groundbreaking jazz alto saxophone players to rise to prominence in the 1960s....
 (another former member of Hamilton's group) and Don Ellis
Don Ellis

Don Ellis was an United States of America jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of unusual time signatures....
, in 1960.

Carter is an acclaimed cellist who has performed on record numerous times with the cello, notably his own first date as leader, Where?, with Dolphy and Mal Waldron
Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an United States jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.His jazz work was chiefly in the hard bop, post-bebop and free jazz genres....
 and a date also with Dolphy called Out There with George Duvivier and Roy Haynes
Roy Haynes

Roy Owen Haynes is an United States jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is one of the most recorded drummers in jazz and in his over 60-year career has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing music and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz....
 and Carter on cello; its advanced harmonics and concepts for 1961 were reminiscent of the then current third stream
Third stream

Third stream is a term coined in 1957 by composer Gunther Schuller to describe a musical genre which is a synthesis of European classical music and jazz....
 movement on cello by Carter.

Fame

Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
, Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is an United States jazz composer and saxophone, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz saxophonists and composers since the 1960s....
 and Tony Williams
Tony Williams

Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams was an United States Jazz drumming.Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s, Williams first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis, and was a pioneer of jazz fusion....
.

Carter joined Davis's group in 1963, appearing on the album Seven Steps to Heaven
Seven Steps to Heaven (album)

Seven Steps to Heaven is an album recorded in 1963 by Miles Davis. On the 16th and 17th of April, a quintet comprising Davis, George Coleman, Victor Feldman, Ron Carter and Frank Butler recorded all six tunes plus "Summer Night", for an album to be titled So Near, So Far....
 and the follow-up E.S.P.
E.S.P. (Miles Davis album)

E.S.P. is an album recorded in January 1965 by the Miles Davis quintet. The quintet of Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams would be the most long-lived of Davis's groups, and this was their first studio recording....
, the latter being the first album to feature the full quintet. It also featured three of Carter's compositions (the only time he contributed compositions to Davis's group). He stayed with Davis's regular group until 1968 (when he was replaced by Dave Holland
Dave Holland

Dave Holland is a United Kingdom jazz bassist and composer who is a significant representative of avant-garde jazz....
), and participated in a couple of studio sessions with Davis in 1969 and 1970. Although he played electric bass occasionally during this period, he has subsequently eschewed that instrument entirely, and now plays only acoustic bass. Carter was close with Davis and even revealed to an interviewer in 1966 that the famous trumpeter's favorite color was fuchsia.

Carter also performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the sixties for Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
. He was a sideman on many Blue Note recordings of the era, playing with Sam Rivers
Sam Rivers

Samuel Carthorne Rivers is an United States jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano....
, Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was an United States jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60s and on....
, Duke Pearson
Duke Pearson

Duke Pearson was an United States jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic notes him as being a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a record producer."...
, Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
, McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner is a jazz piano from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career....
, Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill was an United States jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one the most important progenitors of Free jazz piano, though he is considered more mainstream jazz than Cecil Taylor, who is two years older than Hill....
 and many, many others.

Later career

After leaving Davis, Carter was for several years a mainstay of CTI Records
CTI Records

CTI Records was a jazz record label founded in 1967 in music by Creed Taylor, initially as a subsidiary of A&M Records....
, making albums under his own name and also appearing on many of the label's records with a diverse range of other musicians.

He appears on the alternative hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
's influential album The Low End Theory
The Low End Theory

The Low End Theory is the second album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on September 24, 1991 through Jive Records. With the pairing of Q-Tip and Phife Dawg's lyrics, at turns socially charged, abstract and concretely grounded in reality, with groovy jazz sampling , the album includes guests Brand Nubian , Diamond D and Leaders of the...
 on a track called "Verses from the Abstract". He also appears as a member of the jazz combo, The Classical Jazz Quartet.

Carter was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Music Department of The City College of New York
City College of New York

The City College of The City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning....
, having taught there for twenty years, and received an honorary Doctorate from the Berklee College of Music, in Spring 2004.

Ron Carter is a pipe smoker and has been featured in a few advertisements for tobacco pipes, clothing lines, and basses.

Ron Carter appears in the advertisements for a Tully's chilled coffee beverage in Japan.

Discography


As leader

  • Yellow & Green
  • Pastels
  • Anything Goes
  • Piccolo
  • All Blues
  • Bass and I
  • Stardust
  • The Golden Striker
  • Orfeu
  • Telepathy
  • New York Slick
  • Blues Farm
  • Standard Bearers
  • Jazz, My Romance
  • When Skies 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
  • A Song For You
  • Brandenburg Concerto
  • Live at The Village Vanguard
  • Eight Plus
  • Dear Miles
  • Etudes 1982
  • Live at Village West with Jim Hall
    Jim Hall (musician)

    James Stanley Hall is an United States jazz guitarist....
  • Telephone with Jim Hall
    Jim Hall (musician)

    James Stanley Hall is an United States jazz guitarist....
  • Third Plane (1978) with Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams

As sideman

  • Toshiko Akiyoshi
    Toshiko Akiyoshi

    is a Japanese American Jazz piano, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition....
     - Toshiko at Top of the Gate
    Toshiko at Top of the Gate

    Toshiko at Top of the Gate is a live jazz album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded at the Top of the Gate club in New York City in July 1968 and was released by Nippon Columbia and Denon Records....
     (1968)
  • George Benson
    George Benson

    George Benson is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop music and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night", "Lady Love Me ", "Turn Your Love Around", "Inside Love", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade", among...
     - Giblet Gravy (1968)
  • Billy Cobham
    Billy Cobham

    William C. Cobham , is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader.Coming to prominence in the late 1960s and early '70s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham is, in the words of critic Steve Huey, "generally acclaimed as jazz fusion greatest drummer, "and one of the best in the world" with...
     - Spectrum
    Spectrum (album)

    Spectrum is the debut album of fusion drummer, Billy Cobham. Released in 1973, Spectrum is regarded as one of the most important and essential albums within the fields of drummers and the jazz fusion genre....
     (1973)
  • Harry Connick, Jr.
    Harry Connick, Jr.

    Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. is an American Popular Music/Performers, pianist, composer, actor, and humanitarian. Connick?s music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues....
     - Harry Connick Jr.
    Harry Connick Jr. (album)

    Harry Connick Jr. is a self-titled instrumental album released in 1987, and it is Harry Connick, Jr.'s first album from Columbia records. Like most of his other albums, it is dedicated to Harry's mother, Anita Connick, who died of ovarian cancer when he was 13....
     (1987)
  • Miles Davis
    Miles Davis

    Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
     - Quiet Nights (1962), Four and More, My Funny Valentine, Live at the Plugged Nickel, Miles Smiles, ESP, Miles In the Sky, Seven Steps To Heaven, The Sorcerer, Filles de Kilimanjaro, Water Babies, Nefertiti
  • Eric Dolphy
    Eric Dolphy

    Eric Allan Dolphy was an American jazz alto saxophone, Western concert flute #In jazz, and bass clarinetist.Dolphy was one of several groundbreaking jazz alto saxophone players to rise to prominence in the 1960s....
     - Out There
    Out There (Eric Dolphy album)

    Out There is a 1960 jazz album by Eric Dolphy. It was Dolphy's second album released as band leader, following his time with Charles Mingus....
     (1960)
  • Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack

    Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
     - First Take (1970), Quiet Fire (1971), Killing Me Softly (1973)
  • Johnny Frigo
    Johnny Frigo

    Johnny Frigo was an American jazz violinist and bassist....
     - Live from Studio A in New York City
    Live from Studio A in New York City

    Live from Studio A in New York City was Johnny Frigo's second album as leader, in 1988, though this was the one that more or less launched his career ....
     (1988)
  • Jim Hall
    Jim Hall (musician)

    James Stanley Hall is an United States jazz guitarist....
     - Alone Together (1986), Concierto
  • Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock

    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
     - Empyrean Isles
    Empyrean Isles

    Empyrean Isles is the fourth album by jazz musician Herbie Hancock, released on June 17, 1964 on Blue Note Records. It features the debut of two of his most popular compositions, "One Finger Snap" and "Cantaloupe Island"....
    , Maiden Voyage
    Maiden Voyage

    For the other meaning, see Maiden voyageMaiden Voyage is the fifth album led by jazz musician Herbie Hancock, and was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1965 for Blue Note Records....
    , Speak Like a Child
    Speak Like a Child (album)

    Speak Like a Child is the 6th album for Blue Note Records by United States Jazz musician Herbie Hancock, released in 1968....
    , VSOP
    VSOP (album)

    V.S.O.P. is a 1976 jazz-funk Jazz fusion live album by keyboard player Herbie Hancock featuring performances by the V.S.O.P. Quintet , the Mwandishi band with Eddie Henderson on two tracks, and The Headhunters featuring Bennie Maupin and Paul Jackson ....
  • Coleman Hawkins
    Coleman Hawkins

    Coleman Randolph Hawkins , nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz Tenor saxophone.He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to use the instrument: Joachim E....
     - Night Hawk (1961) with Eddie Davis
    Eddie Davis

    Eddie Davis may refer to:* Eddie Davis , light heavyweight boxer* Eddie Davis , college football player for the West Virginia Mountaineers* Eddie Davis, brother of Larry Davis ...
     and Tommy Flanagan
    Tommy Flanagan

    Thomas Lee Flanagan was an United States of America jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered as an accompanist of Ella Fitzgerald....
  • Joe Henderson
    Joe Henderson

    Joe Henderson was an United States jazz tenor saxophone. Born in Lima, Ohio, he studied music at Kentucky State College and Wayne State University before playing in Detroit at the beginning of his career....
     - Power to the People
    Power to the People (album)

    Power to the People is an album released by jazz saxophone Joe Henderson in 1969....
    , The State Of The Tenor: Live At The Village Vanguard
  • Freddie Hubbard
    Freddie Hubbard

    Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was an United States jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60s and on....
     - Red Clay
    Red Clay (Freddie Hubbard album)

    Red Clay is a soul/funk influenced hard bop album recorded in 1970 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was his first album released on Creed Taylor's CTI Records label and marked a shift away from Hubbard's long time recording affair with Blue Note Records and another shift towards the soul-jazz fusion sounds that would dominate his re...
     (1970), First Light
    First Light (Freddie Hubbard album)

    First Light is an album recorded in 1971 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was his third album released on Creed Taylor's CTI Records label and features performances by Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Eric Gale, George Benson, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira and Richard Wyands....
     (1971)
  • Andrew Hill
    Andrew Hill

    Andrew Hill was an United States jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one the most important progenitors of Free jazz piano, though he is considered more mainstream jazz than Cecil Taylor, who is two years older than Hill....
     - Grass Roots, Lift Every Voice, Passing Ships
  • Bobby Hutcherson
    Bobby Hutcherson

    Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern....
     - Components
    Components (album)

    Components is an album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, released on the Blue Note Records label in 1965. The first side of the LP features compositions by Hutcherson, in a hard bop style, whilst the second side features Joe Chambers' compositions, more in the avant-garde style....
     (1965)
  • Milt Jackson
    Milt Jackson

    Milton Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist and one of the most important figures in the hard bop style, although he performed in several subgenres of jazz....
     - Sunflower (1972)
  • Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
     - Gula Matari (1970)
  • Helen Merrill
    Helen Merrill

    Helen Merrill is an internationally known jazz vocalist.Merrill's recording career has spanned six decades and she is popular with fans of jazz in Japan and Italy as well as in her native United States....
     - Duets (1987)
  • Wes Montgomery
    Wes Montgomery

    John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an United States jazz guitarist. He is generally considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, and Pat Metheny....
     - So Much Guitar (1961), Tequila, California Dreaming
  • Oliver Nelson
    Oliver Nelson

    Oliver Edward Nelson was an United States jazz Saxophone, clarinetist, arranger and composer....
     - Sound Pieces
  • New York Jazz Quartet - In Concert in Japan (1975)
  • Austin Peralta
    Austin Peralta

    Austin Peralta is a musician and composer, son of the legendary Z-Boys skateboarder and award winning film director Stacy Peralta. He has gained notoriety in the jazz world for having two CD's released by CBS/Sony in Japan by the age of 16....
     - Maiden Voyage (2006)
  • Sam Rivers
    Sam Rivers

    Samuel Carthorne Rivers is an United States jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano....
     - Fuchsia Swing Song, Contours
  • Wayne Shorter
    Wayne Shorter

    Wayne Shorter is an United States jazz composer and saxophone, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz saxophonists and composers since the 1960s....
     - Speak No Evil
    Speak No Evil

    For other uses, see Three wise monkeys.Speak No Evil is an album by Wayne Shorter, recorded on 24 December 1964 and released on Blue Note Records in 1965....
     (1964), The All Seeing Eye
    The All Seeing Eye

    The All Seeing Eye is a jazz album by Wayne Shorter, recorded on 1965-10-15 and released by Blue Note Records....
     (1965)
  • Grace Slick
    Grace Slick

    Grace Slick is an United States singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship #Starship, and as a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s....
    -Manhole
    Manhole (album)

    Manhole is Grace Slick's first solo album credited solely to her . The album was recorded in 1973, when Jefferson Airplane had stopped touring, and Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady were making the Hot Tuna album, The Phosphorescent Rat....
      (1973)
  • A Tribe Called Quest
    A Tribe Called Quest

    A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
     - The Low End Theory
    The Low End Theory

    The Low End Theory is the second album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on September 24, 1991 through Jive Records. With the pairing of Q-Tip and Phife Dawg's lyrics, at turns socially charged, abstract and concretely grounded in reality, with groovy jazz sampling , the album includes guests Brand Nubian , Diamond D and Leaders of the...
     (1991)
  • McCoy Tyner
    McCoy Tyner

    Alfred McCoy Tyner is a jazz piano from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career....
     - The Real McCoy
    The Real McCoy

    "The real McCoy" is an idiom used throughout much of the English-speaking world to mean "the real thing" or "the genuine article" e.g., "he's the real McCoy "....
    , Expansions
    Expansions (album)

    Expansions is the tenth album by jazz piano McCoy Tyner and his fourth released on the Blue Note Records label. It was recorded in August 1968 and features performances by Tyner with Woody Shaw, Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Herbie Lewis, and Freddie Waits....
    , Trident
    Trident (album)

    Trident is a 1975 album by jazz piano McCoy Tyner, his eighth to be released on the Milestone Records label. It was recorded in February 1975 and features performances by Tyner with Ron Carter and Elvin Jones....
    , Counterpoints
    Counterpoints

    Counterpoints: Live in Tokyo is a live album by jazz piano McCoy Tyner released on the Milestone Records label in 2004. It was recorded, along with Passion Dance , in July 1978 at the Live under the sky festival in Tokyo, Japan and features performances by Tyner with Tony Williams and Ron Carter....
    , Fly with the Wind
    Fly with the Wind

    Fly with the Wind is a 1976 album by jazz piano McCoy Tyner, his ninth to be released on the Milestone Records label. It was recorded in January 1976 and features performances by Tyner with band and string section....
    , Supertrios
    Supertrios

    Supertrios is a 1977 album by jazz piano McCoy Tyner, his eleventh to be released on the Milestone Records label. It was recorded in April 1977 and features performances by Tyner with two rhythm sections; Ron Carter and Tony Williams or Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette....
    , Extensions
    Extensions (album)

    Extensions is an album by jazz piano McCoy Tyner released on the Blue Note Records label. It was recorded in February 1970 and features performances by Tyner with Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones, and Alice Coltrane on two tracks....
     (1970)


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