Quotes by Ron Carter
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Statements and quotes by Ron Carter from interviews and other sources.
Wayne was a very quiet person, but he wrote great lines and had a great sense of harmonic direction. And Herbie was starting to explore not so much new chord voicings, but places to play these new sounds.
Recalling his bandmates during his 1960s tenure in the Miles Davis Quintet.
about Wayne Shorter
about Herbie HancockAnd Tony, who was at the time 17, was just opening the drums to sets of rhythms that no one had contemplated were being possible to be done on the drums.
On Tony Williams as a 17-year-old in the Miles Davis Quintet.
about Tony WilliamsGod gave Miles the title of Head Clinician at this laboratory.
Describing the Miles Davis Quintet as a laboratory and Davis's role in it.
about Miles DavisYeah, well, you know, that only got there because Freddie didn't bring the part in, I came up with the intro to it and we got lucky and struck the right note at the right time.
On how he came up with the bass intro to Freddie Hubbard's "Red Clay".
about Freddie HubbardOne of the last things Freddie communicated to this person, before the book came out, was that he was sorry we didn't get together because he could tell him how many times I saved his ass on the dates he was doing.
Asked about his role on CTI-era sessions, Carter relays a message the late Hubbard sent for his book.
As a matter of fact, I think I may have played one night for Paul at the Half Note when he was sick.
Recalling the period when Miles Davis's rhythm section was leaving, just before Carter himself joined the band.
about Paul ChambersDuring the course of the evening conversation after the concert, Miles and Red Garland and Paul had no way to get to the train station from the concert. I had a 1950 Ford, and so I piled them in my car and took them to the train station.
As a senior at Eastman, Carter drove the Miles Davis band to the train station after a concert in Rochester.
about Red GarlandJoe, he never had enough music. And he was always two tunes short, ten minutes, and this is an LP, man, come on Joe.
Recalling that Henderson routinely arrived at recording sessions short of material.
about Joe HendersonHe didn't talk a whole lot so it's difficult to read him in terms of his emotion for the moment. He played great.
On Henderson's reticent personality and his playing.