Ron CARTER - Dear Miles 2006 (REPOST)

Ron CARTER - Dear Miles 2006 (REPOST)
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2007

Jazz

DEAR MILES, released in 2007, has Carter tackling 10 Miles tunes (or tunes that Miles helped make famous). Flanked by a crack band, Carter glides, swings, and dances through classics such as "Seven Steps to Heaven," "Someday My Prince Will Come," ...    Full Descriptionand "Stella By Starlight." It's a fitting tribute to both Miles's memory and Carter's own skills, and, in its masterfully executed loveliness is much more than an exercise in nostalgia.

Bassist Ron Carter has good reason to pay tribute to Miles Davis. When Carter joined Miles's great second quintet in the 1960s it launched him on a career that found him consistently in the top ranks of the genre's musicians. As an accompanist, Carter was sensitive, sympathetic, and rhythmically attuned to Miles's innovations. Carter has gone on to demonstrate these same characteristics in all of his session and solo work in the subsequent decades.
When he falls into a straight four-beat line he pulls everybody else up along with him."
CD Universe.
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Ron Carter’s recent Dear Miles CD finds the bassist in a rare retrospective frame of mind, looking back at his stint in the seminal 1960s Miles Davis quintet. He returns to many of the compositions that were part of Davis’s repertoire during this period, offering fresh interpretations that serve both as homage to the classic recordings as well as a reflection of Carter’s current musical conceptions and companions. Below are reviews of several tracks from this release, as well as a guide to other reviews of Ron Carter performances found on jazz.com.
How many different ways can a bass player handle a ballad in 4/4 time? Listen to this track and you will find Ron Carter demonstrating most of them. Scott plays admirably, but Carter steals the show with his feints and jabs, and the sheer creativity of his lines. More than one thousand jazz versions of "My Funny Valentine" have been recorded over the years,  including a classic Miles Davis performance at Lincoln Center in 1964 with Ron Carter in the band. But this new-millennium ensemble ignores the weight of history, and dishes out a fresh performance that both brings the standard up to date but also respects the mood of the Richard Rodgers original.
By Ted Gioia.
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Ron Carter- Bass
Stephen Soctt- Piano
Roger Squitero- Percussion
Payton Crossley- Drums
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01. Gone
02. Seven Steps to Heaven
03. My Funny Valentine
04. Bags' Groove
05. Someday My Prince Will Come
06. Cut and Paste
07. Stella by Starlight
08. As Time Goes By
09. Bye Bye Blackbird
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