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Ron Carter Big Band at Jazz Standard
Courtesy of Jason Jackson | Posted on August 20, 2014
Where
Jazz Standard
116 East 27th Street
New York, NY
Map
212-576-2232
When
Sat, November 29, 2014
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Jason Jackson
tromboneRon Carter
bassDennis Mackrel
drumsDonald Vega
pianoSteve Davis
tromboneGreg Gisbert
trumpetJerry Dodgion
saxophone, altoIvan Renta
saxophoneGreg Skaff
guitarAlex Norris
trumpetAbout
Ron Carter Big Band
Throughout his illustrious career, bassist/composer Ron Carter has played it all: as an integral member of Miles Davis’ classic quintet of the Sixties, as the anchor for countless CTI Records sessions in the Seventies, as the fountainhead of multifarious musical projects including his cello-infused, chamber-jazz nonet and his trio of bass, piano, and guitar.
But Carter had never led or recorded with a big band of his own—until September 2011 and the Sunnyside release of Ron Carter’s Great Big Band. “Instead of banking on the contours of extrapolation, [the album] revels in the power of pith,” wrote Jim Macnie in The Village Voice...