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IN OTHER GENRES After leaving the quintet, he embarked on a prolific 50-year freelance career that spans multiple music genres and continues today. He recorded with Aretha Franklin, appeared on the seminal hiphop album Low End Theory with a Tribe Called Quest, wrote and recorded pieces for string quartets and Bach chorales for 2-8 basses, and accompanied Danny Simmons on a spoken word album. He’s also appeared on numer ous recordings as a cellist (Carter started on cello at age 10 before switching to bass in high school).
AS AN AUTHOR Carter shares his expertise and his cre ative process and with bassists of all levels to improve their skills and develop their own unique sound. His autobiog raphy Finding the Right Notes is available in print and as an audiobook.
IN FILM PROJECTS In addition to scoring and arranging music for many films, including projects for PBS, Carter composed the music for the 1987 movies A Gathering of Old Men and The Passion of Beatrice, and 1998’s Blind Faith.
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AS A TEACHER Car ter has lectured, conducted, and performed at clinics and master classes, instructing jazz ensembles and teaching the business of music at numerous universities. He was Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Studies while it was in Boston and, after 18 years on the faculty of the Music Department of The City College of New York, he currently teaches at the Manhattan School of Music.
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AS A LEADER Carter spends at least half the year on worldwide tours with his groups: a trio, quartet, nonet and Ron Carter’s Great Big Band.
Over his six-decade career, Carter has recorded with such jazz greats as Lena Horne, B.B. King, Dexter Gordon, Wes Mont gomery and Cannonball Adderley. From 1963 to 1968 he was a member of the acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet. While he occasionally played electric bass during this era of early jazz-rock fusion, Carter subsequently stopped playing it, and in the 2000s plays only double bass.
Most jazz documentaries feature Carter: Ken Burns’ Jazz, the Miles Davis doc Birth of the Cool, It Must be Schwing about the famed Blue Note and many more. He also appeared as himself in HBO’s hit series Treme, and was the bassist soundtrackson for TwinBirdPeaks, others.and
Among the most original, prolific and influential bassists in jazz, Ron Carter has appeared on more than 2,200 recordings, and has a Guiness World Record to prove it.
PRESS AWARDS
Carter’s 2022 Skyline won for best Jazz Instrumental Album. In 1993, he won with the Miles Davis Tribute Band for Best Jazz Instrumental Group. In 1986, he won for “Call Sheet Blues” an instrumental composition from the film Round Midnight WORLD RECORD
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EDUCATION Carter has a BM from the Eastman School in Rochester and a master’s in double bass from the Manhattan School of Music. He has received five honorary doctor ates: from the New England Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, University of Rochester, Juilliard and Berklee. In 2021 he received the Satchmo Award from the Louis Armstrong Foundation for his lasting contribu tion to jazz as an educator.
MORE Carter sits on the advisory commit tee of the board of directors of The Jazz Foun dation of America. He has worked with the Foundation since its inception to help America’s elderly jazz and blues musicians.
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
GUINESS
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More at roncarterjazz.com
In 2015
Carter earned a Guinness World Record as the most recorded jazz bassist with 2,221 re cordings. He has since recorded hundreds more.
He was named Outstanding Bassist of the Decade by the Detroit News, Jazz Bassist of the Year by Downbeat magazine, and MVP by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
GRAMMY AWARDS
the Japanese government awarded him The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contributions to Japan-US rela tions in the field of music. In 2010, Carter was honored with France’s premier cultural award, the medallion and title of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.
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Paco Born in the woods of northern Wisconsin in 1966, Paco noticed the tone of a resonator on old records around the house at age thirteen, and he be gan learning “slack tone” on his grandmother’s old Silvertone acoustic. About nine months later, playing lap gave way to learning chords and riffs. After playing in local bands in a variety of genres, it became clear that his style was centered in the blues. Soon Paco began bringing that element to everything he played, and he spent his early adulthood writing blues-influenced guitar parts for original rock songs and performing them around the upper Midwest. In 1996 he moved south to find a larger blues audience, landing in Gainesville, Florida. The years since have found him writing blues songs and crafting classics in his unique style, formed from being self-taught and and an “ear player.” Whether playing slide on a steel resonator, finger-picking his spruce-top dreadnought, or torturing his Gibson solid body through a brace of vintage solid state Peavey amplifiers, the sound is identifiably Paco. Solo shows focused on various styles of acoustic blues have always been part of his repertoire, and his upcoming album project Moonlight Ramble is entirely in this aesthetic. Still, playing the blues full throt tle with a band is also always going on. Currently, besides fronting the Paco Trio, he also serves as the FindTornadoes.MikewithguitaristLittle&thehimon Facebook
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Ona Kirei
Vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Ona Kirei pushes stylistic bound aries while maintaining a profound emotional connection that makes her work accessible to audiences looking for jazz explorations that reach far outside the conventions of the genre. Her life experience, cultural influences, determination, and deepness, are reflected in her unique voice. Born in Barcelona, Kirei is literally a citizen of the world, having lived in Spain, India, the UK, and Austria, among other places. She has performed to critical acclaim in venues and festivals across Europe and the U.S., speaking and singing in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese – and English. Kirei took first place in the International Talavera Jazz Contest, and on Actúa!, a music competition on Spanish national radio station Cadena Ser. Since becoming involved in the Tampa Bay area music scene in 2018, Kirei’s career has con tinued to evolve. Her stateside debut Mirage was released in July, and features a diverse collection of original songs and creative arrangements of very personal selections.
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The official release took place at The Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg, backed by the award-winning group La Lucha (whose members – pianist John O’Leary, bassist Alejandro Arenas and drummer Mark Feinman – are the only musicians on the album), along with trumpeter James Suggs and saxman Mike DiRubbo. She and Arenas also have a duo project, Orilla. More at onakirei.com.
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On his 2020 studio debut Soul Service, Tony Holiday proves to be not only a topnotch harmonica player, but also a powerful, soulful singer and songwriter in the roots music tradition. But don’t expect the expected. “No offense to the tradition at all, but I’m not making it to be in the footsteps of everyone who came before us.” Born in South Jordan, Utah, Holiday was introduced to the blues as a boy via CDs that his mother got from the library. At 24, Holiday was playing guitar in his first band, Blueroot. Then Tony Holiday & The Velvetones won the 2012 Gorilla Music Battle of the Bands. The group toured nationally for five years, and shared the stage with Guitar Shorty, Tinsley Ellis, Charlie Daniels Band, and others. Hearing fellow harmonica player/singer John Németh influenced Holiday to take up the instrument. It was also Németh who helped convince Holiday to move to Memphis a few years back, and that’s when things really took off. Holiday has also released two compilation CDs with special guests. Both Porch Sessions albums were recorded live… on porches. 2019’s Volume 1 guests include Németh, Charlie Musselwhite and James Harman. Guests on 2021’s Volume 2 include Watermelon Slim, Mark Hummel and Bobby Rush. Holi day knows that while keeping tradition is important, change is a constant: “I don’t play for the same reasons anymore,” Holiday says. “I think I was using my music as a hammer and a nail, and I’m using it more as a paintbrush now.” Find him on Facebook.
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Violin legend Federico Britos is equally adept within the world of jazz music as he is in the clas sical realm, and has built a solid reputation through out the Southern Hemi sphere of the Americas.
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While his most recent release is 2017’s The Color of Note with Jorge García, Britos appears regularly as a supporting or guest performer, most recently on Susana Behar’s Tapiz CD. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Britos began playing violin at age five. He has served as principal chair, soloist, and ultimately Con certmaster with some of the great symphony orchestras of Uruguay, Venezuela, Peru and Cuba. Britos was also Concertmaster of the Miami Symphony Orchestra for seven years and of the Ars Flores Orchestra. Britos has toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe. He has performed with some of Latin America’s greatest musicians (Astor Pi azzolla, Horacio Salgan, Joao Gilberto) along with luminaries such as Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Charlie Byrd. Britos has also toured Europe with the Hot Club USA and Franck Vignola. As a composer, Britos has written and recorded numerous works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, ballet and dance. He has also composed music for films, TV and theater, and performed at many of the most prestigious jazz festivals. Britos is also the honored recipient of a Trustees Grammy for his significant con
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Over the course of a career that spans three decades and more than 30 albums, Popa Chubby – born Ted Horowitz – has been a guitar force to be reck oned with. An imposing figure, he describes his performance style as “the Stooges meets Buddy Guy, Motörhead meets Muddy Waters, and Jimi Hendrix meets Robert Johnson.” The native New Yorker’s first gigs were in the NYC punk scene as a guitar ist for what he describes as a “crazy Japanese special effects performance artist in a kimono called Screaming Mad George who had a horror-movie inspired show.” From the start he was immersed in rock ‘n’ roll as theater, and learned from George and others playing CBGB at the time that rock ‘n’ roll should be dangerous. He even joined Richard Hell’s band the Voidoids for a while. “I understood that the blues should be dangerous, too,” he recalls. “Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters were dangerous men. They’d cut or shoot you if they thought it was necessary, and Little Walter packed a gun and wouldn’t hesitate to use it. That danger is a real part of the Blues and I keep it alive in my music.”
On his latest release, 2022’s Emotional Gangster, the Bronx native shows us an
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In 1990 the U.S. Congress, recognizing the importance of jazz in American culture, authorized the establishment of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (SJMO) as the orchestra-in-residence at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Whether a 17-member big band, quartet, septet, or small group, the SJMO presents con certs and programs that illuminate the work of jazz masters who contributed to the development of American jazz and defined the music’s character. Charlie Young, coordinator of jazz studies at Howard University and a professor of saxophone, officially assumed the role of SJMO Artistic Director And Conductor in 2013. A member since 1995, Young served as the ensemble’s principal saxophonist for more than 15 years. He has also been a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra since 1988. Drummer Ken Kimery, Executive Director of the SJMO and Jazz Oral History Program, has produced more than 300 concerts in Washington, D.C. and was awarded “Excellence in an Ar tistic Discipline” at the 18th Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards. The remainder of the lineup is equally impressive. Since 1992, the SJMO has performed for audiences in more than 40 states. Highlights include concerts at the historic Apollo Theater; Symphony Hall in Atlanta, GA for the 1996 Olym pic games, and the Monterey Jazz Festival. Embarking on its first international tour in 1999, the SJMO performed in Canada, Turkey, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Finland and the UK. In 2008, the Orchestra traveled to Egypt, then to Russia as part of the U.S. – Russia Bilateral Presi dential Commission in 2011 and Ethiopia in 2012. More at americanhistory.si.edu
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