The 64th annual Grammy awards saw Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette and Gonzalo Rubalcaba winning the Best Jazz Instrumental Album with “Skyline”.
Ron Carter is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. On records, Ron Carter has Grammy Awards.
Carter’s first job as a jazz artist was playing bass with Chico Hamilton in 1959, trailed by independent work with Jaki Byard, Cannonball Adderley, Randy Weston, Bobby Timmons, and Thelonious Monk.
One of his previously recorded appearances was on Hamilton graduate Eric Dolphy’s Out There, recorded on August 15, 1960, and highlighting George Duvivier on bass, Roy Haynes on drums, and Carter on cello.
The album’s high-level harmonies and ideas were in sync with the third stream development.
Carter recorded How Time Passes with Don Ellis, and on June 20, 1961, he recorded Where?, his first collection as a pioneer, including Dolphy on alto sax, woodwind, and bass clarinet; Mal Waldron on piano; Charlie Persip on drums; and Duvivier playing basslines on tracks where Carter played cello.
Ron Carter was a sideman on many Blue Note recordings of the era, playing with Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Duke Pearson, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Horace Silver, and others. He also played on soul-pop star Roberta Flack’s album First Take.
