Following a rigorous music education at Cass Technical High School in Detroit and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. in the mid-1950s, Ron Carter set his sights on graduate studies in New York. Trained as a classical musician, the bassist had already begun playing jazz gigs, and the pace picked up significantly soon after his arrival in the …
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