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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
trombone
Steve Davis
trombone
Greg Gisbert
trumpet
Jerry Dodgion
saxophone, alto
Ivan Renta
saxophone
Greg Skaff
guitar
Alex Norris
trumpet

About

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...

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