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Full Albums on YouTube

Five Ron Carter records and one concert, embedded as full-length videos so you can hit play and listen end to end. The set runs from the 1961 debut with Eric Dolphy on New Jazz, through the Embryo and CTI years and the two later duo records with Jim Hall, to the 1992 Bach record on which he plays every part himself, and closes with his Foursight Quartet live in Spain in 2019. Each card links to the full review.

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Era One · The Early Years and CTI
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New Jazz · Recorded 1961, issued 1962

The debut, cut at Van Gelder's in June 1961 with Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet, alto and flute, Mal Waldron at the piano and Charlie Persip on drums. Carter plays cello on half of it, with George Duvivier holding the bass line underneath him. The uploader has blocked playback on other sites, so this one opens on YouTube.

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Era One · The Early Years and CTI
Uptown Conversation
Embryo · Recorded 1969, issued 1970

Eight years after the debut and five of them in the Miles Davis quintet. Seven Carter tunes, Herbie Hancock on keyboards, Hubert Laws on flute, and two drummers, Grady Tate on the tighter tracks and Billy Cobham on the open ones.

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Era One · The Early Years and CTI
Spanish Blue
CTI · Recorded 1974, issued 1975

The CTI date built around an eleven-minute “So What,” with Hubert Laws on flute where the trumpet used to be, Roland Hanna at the piano and Billy Cobham on drums. One day at Van Gelder's in November 1974.

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Era Two · Milestone to Skyline
Telepathy
Concord · 2001 (recorded 1982 and 1984)

Concord's two-disc set of the second and third Carter and Jim Hall duo records: Live at Village West, from a New York club in November 1982, and Telephone, from the Concord Pavilion in August 1984. Both are reviewed on the site, and the two links below go to each one.

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Era Two · Milestone to Skyline
Ron Carter Meets Bach
Blue Note · Recorded 1991, issued 1992

Three days at Clinton Recording Studios in December 1991 and no other musicians. Carter wrote Bach arrangements for a choir of basses and played every part himself on bass and piccolo bass: Air, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, the chorales and two long preludes.

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Live · In Concert
Foursight Quartet at Jazz San Javier
Concert · July 21, 2019, San Javier, Spain

A full set from the San Javier International Jazz Festival with his Foursight Quartet: Renee Rosnes on piano, Jimmy Greene on tenor saxophone and Payton Crossley on drums, Carter leading from the bass at eighty-two. This is a concert film, not an album, so it links to the Ron Carter hub.

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