The Newark Museum’s Jazz in the Garden summer concert series concludes on Friday, August 16 at 6:30 pm with a performance by Ron Carter. A jam session will follow the performance and musicians are encouraged to bring instruments. Tickets are $25 members; $40 non-members, which includes a glass of wine.
Carter is among the most original, prolific and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music’s greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy. He later toured Europe with Cannonball Adderley. From 1963 to 1968, he was a member of the classic and acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet. In 1993 Ron Carter earned a Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Group, the Miles Davis Tribute Band and another Grammy in 1998 for Call ‘Sheet Blues’, an instrumental composition from the film ‘Round Midnight.
Most recently he was honored by the French Minister of Culture with France’s premier cultural award–the medallion and title of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, given to those who have distinguished themselves in the domain of artistic or literary creation and for their contribution to the spread of arts and letters in France and the world.
The “Jazz House Kids” ensemble will open the evening. The Newark Museum is located at 49 Washington St., Newark. For tickets, call 973.596.6690. For further information, visit www.newarkmuseum.org.
Feature image by Gimena Berenguer
