Ron Carter discography


This is the discography for American double bassist Ron Carter.

As leader/co-leader

Recording dateTitleLabelYear releasedNotes
1961-06Where?New Jazz1961
1969-10Uptown ConversationEmbryo1970live
1972-08[Alone Together (Ron Carter and Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall album)|Alone Together] with Jim HallMilestone1973live
1973-01Blues FarmCTI1973
1973-10All BluesCTI1974
1974-11Spanish BlueCTI1975
1975-06 –
1975-07		Anything GoesKudu1975
1976-05Yellow & GreenCTI1976
1976-10PastelsMilestone1976
1977-03PiccoloMilestone1977live
1977-07Third PlaneMilestone1977
1977-11Peg LegMilestone1978
1978-06A Song for YouMilestone1978
1978-071 + 3 with Hank Jones or Herbie Hancock and Tony WilliamsJVC1979live
1978-07Carnaval with Sadao Watanabe, Hank Jones and Tony WilliamsGalaxy1983live
1978-12Pick 'EmMilestone1980
1979-03ParadeMilestone1980
1979-12New York SlickMilestone1980
1980-05PatrãoMilestone1981
1980Empire JazzRSO1980
1980-09ParfaitMilestone1982
1981-04Super StringsMilestone1981
1981-12Heart & Soul with Cedar WaltonTimeless1982
1982-09EtudesElektra Musician1983
1982-11Live at Village West with Jim HallConcord Jazz1984live
1984-08Telephone with Jim HallConcord Jazz1985live
1986Plays BachPhillips1987
1986-05The PuzzleSMS1986
1987-08Very WellPolydor Deep Moat1987
1988-03All AloneEmArcy1988
1989-02Something in Common with Houston PersonMuse1990
1989-09Duets with Helen MerrillEmArcy1989
1990-01Now's the Time with Houston PersonMuse1990
1990-04Eight PlusVictor1990
1991-07Panamanhattan with Richard GallianoDreyfus Jazz1991live
1992?Meets BachBlue Note1992
1993?FriendsBlue Note1993
1994-01Jazz, My RomanceBlue Note1994
1992-09,
1994		A Tribute to Miles with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Wallace RoneyQwest1994
1995-02Mr. Bow-tieBlue Note1995
1995-12Brandenburg ConcertoBlue Note1996
1997-01The Bass and ISomethin' Else1997
1998-01So What?Somethin' Else1998
1999-02,
1999-03		OrfeuSomethin' Else1999
2000-04Holiday in RioBlue Note2001
2000-05When Skies Are Grey...Blue Note2001live
2000-08Dialogues with Houston PersonHighNote2002
2001-04StardustBlue Note2001
2002-07The Golden StrikerBlue Note2003
2005-10Just Between Friends with Houston PersonHighNote2008
2006-02Dear MilesBlue Note2007
2007-04,
2007-06		It's the TimeBlue Note2007
2008-04Jazz & BossaBlue Note2008
2009-06The World of Ron CarterSomethin' Else2009
2010-06Ron Carter's Great Big BandSunnyside2011
2012-12Cocktails At The Cotton ClubSomethin' Else2013
2014-01In Memory of Jim with Larry Coryell and Peter BernsteinSomethin' Else2014
2014-07My Personal Songbook with The WDR Big BandIn+Out2015
2015-12Chemistry with Houston PersonHighNote2016
2016-10An Evening with Ron Carter & Richard Galliano with Richard GallianoIn+Out2017live
2018-03Remember Love with Houston PersonHighNote2018
2018-10Skyline with Jack DeJohnette, Gonzalo Rubalcaba5Passion2021Grammy won album
2018-11Foursight: The Complete Stockholm TapesIn+Out2022 live
2019-04Remembering Bob FreedmanShanti Music2021live, Grammy nominated album
2019?The Brown Beatnik Tomes with Danny SimmonsBlue Note2019live
2014 –
2021		Finding The Right NotesIn+Out2022soundtrack

As sideman

With Pepper AdamsThe Adams Effect Mean What You Say with Thad Jones Encounter!
With Nat AdderleyCalling Out Loud A Little New York Midtown Music
With Geri AllenTwenty One Timeless Portraits and Dreams
With Gene AmmonsThe Black Cat! My Way Got My Own Big Bad Jug
With Roy AyersStoned Soul Picnic Daddy Bug
With Chet BakerShe Was Too Good to Me Carnegie Hall Concert with Gerry Mulligan – liveYou Can't Go Home Again Once Upon a Summertime The Best Thing for You
With Gato BarbieriFenix Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata Yesterdays Chapter Four: Alive in New York – live
With Joey BaronDown Home with Arthur Blythe and Bill Frisell We'll Soon Find Out with Arthur Blythe and Bill Frisell
With George BensonGiblet Gravy Shape of Things to Come The Other Side of Abbey Road – rec. 1969Beyond the Blue Horizon White Rabbit – rec. 1971Body Talk Bad Benson Tenderly Big Boss Band
With Cindy BlackmanThe Oracle In the Now
With Ray BryantUp Above the Rock MCMLXX
With Kenny BurrellGuitar Forms A Generation Ago Today Blues – The Common Ground Night Song God Bless the Child Togethering with Grover Washington Jr.
With Jaki ByardHere's Jaki Hi-Fly Out Front! Jaki Byard with Strings!
With Donald ByrdElectric Byrd Kofi – rec. 1969–1970
With Billy CobhamSpectrum The Art of Three The Art of Four
With Alice ColtraneHuntington Ashram Monastery Ptah, The El Daoud
With Hank CrawfordMr. Blues Plays Lady Soul It's a Funky Thing to Do Help Me Make it Through the Night We Got a Good Thing Going
With Miles DavisQuiet Nights Seven Steps to Heaven Miles Davis in Europe – liveLive at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival – liveMy Funny Valentine – liveFour & More – liveMiles in Berlin – liveMiles in Tokyo – liveLive at the Plugged Nickel – liveESP Miles Smiles Sorcerer Nefertiti Miles in the Sky Filles de Kilimanjaro Live-Evil – partially liveBig Fun Water Babies Circle in the Round Direction Live in Milan 1964
With Paul DesmondSummertime From the Hot Afternoon Bridge Over Troubled Water Skylark Pure Desmond
With Eric DolphyOut There Far Cry
With Lou DonaldsonLush Life Sophisticated Lou
With Don EllisHow Time Passes New Ideas
With Gil EvansOut of the Cool The Individualism of Gil Evans
With Roberta FlackFirst Take Quiet Fire Killing Me Softly
With Tommy FlanaganThe Master Trio Blues in the Closet
With Michael FranksTiger in the Rain Skin Dive
With Nnenna FreelonNnenna Freelon Listen
With Letizia GambiIntroducing Letizia Gambi Blue Monday
With Red GarlandRed Alert Crossings Stepping Out So Long Blues Strike Up the Band
With Stan GetzVoices Sweet Rain What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David – rec. 1966-1968Stan Getz & Bill Evans – rec. 1964
With Gerry GibbsThrasher Dream Trio with Kenny Barron We're Back with Kenny Barron Live in Studio with Kenny Barron
With Benny GolsonPop + Jazz = Swing – also released as Just Jazz!Free This Is for You, John Stardust with Freddie HubbardOne Day, Forever – rec. 1999
With Johnny GriffinWhite Gardenia The Kerry Dancers
With Jim HallConcierto Commitment Live at Village West Telephone
With Johnny HammondWild Horses Rock Steady The Prophet Higher Ground
With Herbie HancockEmpyrean Isles Maiden Voyage Speak Like a Child V.S.O.P. – rec. 1976Quartet – rec. 1981
With Eddie HarrisThe In Sound Mean Greens The Tender Storm Plug Me In Excursions How Can You Live Like That?
With Coleman HawkinsNight Hawk – rec. 1960The Hawk Relaxes
With Joe HendersonMode for Joe The Kicker Tetragon Power to the People Black Is the Color Black Miracle Mirror Mirror The State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2
With Andrew Hill[Grass Roots (Cedar Walton album)|Roots (Andrew Hill album)|Grass Roots] Lift Every Voice Passing Ships
With Johnny HodgesRippin' & Runnin' 3 Shades of Blue
With Freddie HubbardRed Clay Straight Life First Light Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One In Concert Volume Two Sky Dive
With Bobby HutchersonComponents Acoustic Masters II
With Milt JacksonBig Bags Invitation Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art – liveMilt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet Sunflower – rec. 1972Goodbye – rec. 1972-1973Olinga
With Antonio Carlos JobimWave Tide Stone Flower Jobim Urubu
With J. J. JohnsonThe Total J.J. Johnson – rec. 1966Pinnacles – rec. 1979
With Hank JonesHanky Panky I'm Old Fashioned with Sadao Watanabe and The Great Jazz TrioThe Great Jazz Trio at the Village Vanguard as The Great Jazz TrioThe Great Jazz Trio at the Village Vanguard Vol. 2 as The Great Jazz TrioThe Great Jazz Trio at the Village Vanguard Again as The Great Jazz Trio – rec. 1977Kindness Joy Love & Happiness as The Great Jazz TrioDirect from L.A. as The Great Jazz TrioMilestones as The Great Jazz TrioNew Wine in Old Bottles with Jackie McLean and the Great Jazz Trio
With Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" JonesIntroducing the Psychedelic Soul Jazz Guitar of Joe Jones – rec. 1967Black Whip
With Hubert LawsLaws' Cause – rec. 1968Crying Song Afro-Classic The Rite of Spring Wild Flower – rec. 1971-1972Morning Star Carnegie Hall – liveIn the Beginning The Chicago Theme
With Harold MabernStraight Street The Leading Man
With Herbie MannGlory of Love – rec. 1967Concerto Grosso in D Blues – rec. 1968Stone Flute – rec. 1968
With Branford MarsalisScenes in the City - rec. 1983Royal Garden Blues
With Wynton MarsalisWynton Marsalis Hot House Flowers Black Codes (From the Underground)
With Les McCannMuch Les Comment
With Helen MerrillThe Feeling Is Mutual Duets
With Jane MonheitNever Never Land In the Sun Taking a Chance on Love
With Bette MidlerThe Divine Miss M – rec. 1971-1972Some People's Lives Bathhouse Betty – rec. 1997-1998
With Buddy MontgomeryTies of Love So Why Not?
With Wes MontgomerySO Much Guitar! Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings Tequila A Day in the Life Down Here on the Ground
With Frank MorganYardbird Suite Reflections Listen to the Dawn
With Oliver NelsonSound Pieces – rec. 1966Happenings Encyclopedia of Jazz The Sound of Feeling
With David "Fathead" NewmanThe Many Facets of David Newman – rec. 1968-1969Newmanism Mr. Fathead Scratch My Back Mr. Gentle Mr. Cool
With Hermeto PascoalHermeto Slaves Mass
With Art PepperSo in Love – rec. 1979New York Album – rec. 1979
With Esther PhillipsAlone Again, Naturally Black-Eyed Blues You've Come a Long Way, Baby
With The RascalsOnce Upon a Dream See Peaceful World
With Lou RawlsShades of Blue
With Sam RiversFuchsia Swing Song Contours
With Wallace RoneyIntuition Crunchin'
With Shirley ScottOn a Clear Day Mystical Lady Superstition
With Don SebeskyGiant Box The Rape of El Morro
With Woody ShawIn the Beginning – rec. 1965Blackstone Legacy
With Wayne ShorterSpeak No Evil The Soothsayer The All Seeing Eye Schizophrenia Moto Grosso Feio Odyssey of Iska
With Horace SilverSilver 'n Brass Silver 'n Wood Silver 'n Voices Silver 'n Percussion Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres The Hardbop Grandpop A Prescription for the Blues
With Jimmy SmithGot My Mojo Workin' Off the Top
With James SpauldingGotstabe a Better Way! – rec. 1988Brilliant Corners
With Gábor SzabóSpellbinder Mizrab
With Bobby TimmonsIn Person – liveBorn to Be Blue! The Soul Man! Got to Get It!
With The Manhattan TransferJukin' Vocalese
With Stanley TurrentineLet It Go Sugar The Man with the Sad Face Nightwings More Than a Mood If I Could
With McCoy TynerThe Real McCoy Expansions Extensions – rec. 1970Trident Fly with the Wind Supertrios Passion Dance 13th House – rec. 1980New York Reunion Counterpoints – rec. 1978
With Cedar WaltonThe All American Trio with Jack DeJohnette Cedar Walton Plays Roots
With Grover Washington Jr.Inner City Blues – rec. 1971All the King's Horses Soul Box Aria – rec. 1999
With Randy WestonUhuru Afrika Blue Moses Tanjah
With Vanessa WilliamsThe Sweetest Days Star Bright
With Kai WindingThe Incredible Kai Winding Trombones Penny Lane & Time Israel with J. J. Johnson Betwixt & Between with J. J. Johnson Stonebone with J. J. Johnson
With others