Ron Carter Foursight: A Taste of Jazz; August Wilson African American Cultural Center (Sold Out)

Followed at 9:30 with the A Taste of Jazz Party (Tickets Still Available)

The kickoff event for the 2022 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center.

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. He has recorded over 2200 albums; a Guinness world record. Over his 60-year career, he has recorded with many of the jazz greats: Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, Bobby Timmons, Eric Dolphy, Cannonball Adderley and Jaki Byard to name a few. From 1963 to 1968, he was a member of the acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet. After leaving the quintet he has a prolific 50-year freelance career that has spanned vastly different music genres. He recorded with Aretha Franklin, appeared on the seminal hip-hop album Low End Theory with a Tribe Called Quest, wrote, and recorded pieces for string quartets and Bach chorales for tow to eight basses, and accompanied Danny Simmons on a spoken word album.

Ron Carter