Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an American jazz double bassist, cellist, composer, bandleader, and educator. He is best known for jazz, especially post-bop, hard bop, modal jazz, mainstream jazz, and acoustic small-group jazz. Tidal and Qobuz describe him as a world-class bassist and jazz icon, famous for his melodic and rhythmic approach and for his role in Miles Davis’s 1960s “second great quintet.”

His important solo and leader albums include Where?, All Blues, Spanish Blue, Piccolo, Pastels, A Song for You, Mr. Bow-Tie, Dear Miles, Ron Carter’s Great Big Band, and Finding the Right Notes. His wider discography is enormous: Ron Carter Universe describes nearly 1,000 releases, more than 2,100 collaborators, and music spanning jazz, classical, pop, soul, film scores, hip-hop, and spoken word.

He is known as one of the most recorded jazz bassists in history, with YouTube Music noting 2,221 recording sessions. His reputation rests on elegant time feel, rich acoustic bass tone, sophisticated harmony, and landmark work with artists such as Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, McCoy Tyner, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and many others.