After spending the 1960s playing upright bass in the decade's most musically advanced jazz ensembles, Ron Carter found himself in even greater demand in the 1970s. But jazz tastes were changing. The creeping domination of rock and soul over the music business was sucking the commercial air out of traditional jazz. Clubs faced dwindling audiences and man…
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