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ron carter on electric?
- Thread starter bearhart74
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Man, I don't remember Lovano going that far back, must have been one of his first dates.
I know...Benson & Carter had history (CTI albums & Miles Davis' Miles In The Sky).
I gotta read up on Lovano.
Perhaps not. With LRC there is no telling who played bass for sure on the tracks from Afro-Desia. Both Ron Carter and Ralphe Armstrong are credited for some tracks some places and Lonnie Smith credits Bob Crenshaw.
As anyone that has a record on LRC knows it is a legal quagmire designed be a vast clearinghouse for music that only benefits the unknown entity that is "Sonny Lester".
...just saw a documentary on Miles Davis, and Ron Carter left Miles because Miles wanted him to switch to electric bass... he said "I been doin' this since I was 18, so I was in the wind..." funny to think he actually played an electric bass guitar...
I don't think cats like Carter or Richard Davis for that matter were really that crazy about playing electric bass, but producers back then were pushing for it, a gigs a gig.
Wow. I’ve never heard that version of Bobby Hebb doing his classic Sunny or seen Ron playing electric. Double treat. I’d read once Sunny was one of the most covered tunes in history. Way to go Bobby. Mailbox money. He was living in Nashville at one time but frankly not sure he he’s living anywhere. I should check.
Bobby passed in 2010 at 72. He was born in Nashville and died in Nashville. Salute to a great fellow Tennessean.
Bobby passed in 2010 at 72. He was born in Nashville and died in Nashville. Salute to a great fellow Tennessean.
I don't think cats like Carter or Richard Davis for that matter were really that crazy about playing electric bass, but producers back then were pushing for it, a gigs a gig.
I don’t know about Richard Davis, but Ron Carter never made any bones about not being big on electric bass. In a few interviews he was flat out dismissive about it and encouraged bassists to “learn to play the real bass.”
I worked with him and a bunch of others on the ain’t gonna play sun city collaboration. I was on the gear moving end of the video shot all over nyc and ending with a giant gathering at some park. When they found out Springsteen was there the cops had to close off some streets. It was a mob fest, people climbing on my van woke me up from a break. I yelled at them and they eventually got off. Anyhow I found him to be a quit respectful dude.
Ron Carter also plays electric bass on Miles Davis Quintet’s Filles de Kilimanjaro album. He’s on "Tout de Suite," "Petits Machins," and "Filles de Kilimanjaro".
Notice in that Bobby Hebb video what Ron is using...a Danelectro! In one interview he mentioned he simply went into a music store and bought the cheapest bass he thought was playable.
His attitude towards BG was pretty common during that period, most jazz players who doubled did so out of necessity. My first DB instructor was exactly like that, he had a Carvin hanging on the wall and only took it down for gigs where BG was required, he never played it otherwise.
His attitude towards BG was pretty common during that period, most jazz players who doubled did so out of necessity. My first DB instructor was exactly like that, he had a Carvin hanging on the wall and only took it down for gigs where BG was required, he never played it otherwise.
I swear, somewhere, I have seen Ron Carter sitting with a sunburst P-bass. B&W photo with sunglasses on. Probably in a '70s-era issue of Downbeat.,
Carter also played EB on Miles In The Sky, no?
How about those early Grover Washington albums on CTI?
