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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Ron carter - What They Never Told You

“Having grown up playing road hockey, I felt I had to hit the bass as hard as I could. Mr Carter taught me to refine my sound”: What Brandi Disterheft learned from her studies with bass legend Ron Carter

The New York jazzer lifts the lid on her early lessons with the world’s most recorded bassist

Guitar World

“I said, ‘We aren’t getting paid properly. I’m going back to New York.’ Duane Allman said, ‘I’m gonna go home and start a band with my brother’”: Jerry Jemmott played with B.B. King and George Benson – but two car accidents influenced him the most

A childhood head injury meant the session icon had to find his own way of making music. But after working with King, Aretha Franklin, Benson, Roberta Flack, and many others, he’s proud to be a poster boy for not knowing what he’s doing

Guitar World

Jazz fans, take note: this audiophile record label's full hi-res catalogue is now available on Qobuz

And there's an exclusive vinyl competition, too

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“I love to swing, but I don't look down my nose at other styles of music, or other musicians. I'll play with anybody if the music is good”: Acclaimed jazz guitarist Russell Malone, known for his work with Harry Connick Jr. and Ron Carter, has died aged 60

Malone had just finished a performance at Blue Note Tokyo with The Golden Striker Trio when he suffered a fatal heart attack

Guitar World

“If I had tried to be another Ron Carter I would have failed. I don’t think that’s what Miles was looking for”: Dave Holland on the making of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew

Few jazz bassists can match the pedigree of Dave Holland, thanks to his work with Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Chick Corea and just about everyone else

Guitar World

Ron Carter, jazz’s most prolific bassist: ‘Our band was a laboratory – and Miles Davis was head chemist’

He overcame prejudice to play on more than 2,000 albums, and is still going strong at 86. Carter recalls laughter with Aretha Franklin, composing with Roberta Flack, and what Miles taught him in their classic quintet

The Guardian - UK

EFG London Jazz Festival 2023: the top 12 shows to book

From jazz icons to exciting new talent and virtuousos to boundary breakers, this London event has it all

Evening Standard

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Labor Day weekend kicks off jazz season in Chicago — here are some highlights

“It’s a wide variety of different genres, from New Age to Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz and a little bit of avant-garde,” said John Foster, the Jazz Institute’s managing director of programs and education initiatives, about this weekend’s Chicago Jazz Festival.

Chicago Sun-Times

Wayne Shorter obituary

Saxophonist and master improviser with artists ranging from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell, and with lineups including Weather Report

The Guardian - UK

Wayne Shorter, icon of jazz saxophone, dies aged 89

Composer and performer traversed numerous phases of jazz history, and fused his playing with the likes of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and Carlos Santana

The Guardian - UK

Pride and prejudice over working-class and regional accents

Letters: Adrian Pritchard has a theory about why some people lose their accent when they move and others don’t. Plus letters from Thomas Ryder, Jane Ghosh, Frances Worsley, Ian D Richardson and Irene Zetie

The Guardian - UK

85-year-old bassist Ron Carter has no plans on slowing down

The roster of musicians Carter has worked with ranges from Ornette Coleman to Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack and A Tribe Called Quest.

WEKU

Ron Carter: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Watch the legendary jazz bassist and members of his trio perform from The Blue Note's prestigious stage.

WEKU

‘I was consumed with anger’: Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron’s brilliant, badly wronged partner

He wrote the music for Scott-Heron’s astonishing streams of social consciousness – and then his royalties got cut off. The jazz-funk artist explains why he focused on a comeback instead of lawsuits

The Guardian - UK

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