Double Bass Ron Carter on rhythm changes?

[dedoonbass]

Hey guys,

I've been working on walking over rhythm changes the past while and would love some examples of Ron Carter playing over them to transcribe.

Thanks a lot!

 

[Michael Karn]

Well, first of all, all those versions of the Theme from the live Miles records he's on (Four and More, My Funny Valentine and the Plugged Nickel box among others), plus theres a version of Oleo from the Nickel. Off the top of my head a few non Miles things are Dexterity from Barry Harris' Magnificent, Second Balcony Jump from Dexter Gordon's Landslide and Cottontail from Wes Montgomery's So Much Guitar!

 

[Huy Nguyen]

 

[Michael Glynn]

Here are a couple versions of Oleo:

 

[Huy Nguyen]

It's based on Rhythm Changes

 

[Michael Karn]

It's based on Rhythm Changes

Not exactly, the bridge is not a rhythm bridge

 

[Don Kasper]

He's not RC, but check out Sam Jones...(Philly Joe lays out a bunch, so the bass is easy(er) to hear.

 

[Don Kasper]

He's not RC, but check out Gary Peacock... (beautiful "walking" solo).

 

[dedoonbass]

Wow, thanks a lot guys; a ton of material here to go through. You guys are awesome. I've been transcribing the solo for this tune lately, another great example of awesome bass work on rhythm changes. I really like the sax line in the A section as well:

 

[Michael Karn]

Isn't Ron on the Aebersold Charlie Parker play along? There's got to be at least one rhythm tune on there, you could hardly do better than that in terms of being able to hear what he's doing

 

[jimclark68]

Isn't Ron on the Aebersold Charlie Parker play along? There's got to be at least one rhythm tune on there, you could hardly do better than that in terms of being able to hear what he's doing

Yep, that's him on the Bird Aebersold album, and the last cut on the disc is rhythm changes at a pretty fast clip. I came up a reeds player, but Ron Carter's sound on that play along was the first bass sound to really speak to me as a young person. It's funny how I got it as a tool for playing sax and it ended up influencing me more as a bassist.