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One of the more knotty questions that we get asked
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Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes

One of the more knottyquestions that we get asked, is what is jazz and what makes jazz...

One of the more knotty
questions that we get asked, is what is jazz and what makes jazz what it is?

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- One of the more knotty questions that we get asked,
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is what is jazz and
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what makes jazz what it is?
Duration
12 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
00:26:48
Uploaded
Mar 15, 2025
Genres
documentary

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The life and career of jazz musician Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history, featuring original concert footage and insights from jazz icons.
What kind of bothers me though, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:14
What kind of bothers me though,
No one asks them, what makes Beethoven so great. - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:06
No one asks them, what makes Beethoven so great.
- I want to ask, just on the record, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:08
- I want to ask, just on the record,
Studied the music, studied the form, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:06
Studied the music, studied the form,
- The first thing is I understand what note choices I have. - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:06
- The first thing is I understand what note choices I have.
- You know, so when I see a chord that says F, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:10
- You know, so when I see a chord that says F,
Now what I'm seeing is FAC, FAC, FAC, FAC, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:10
Now what I'm seeing is FAC, FAC, FAC, FAC,
- Now multiply that times a thirty-two bar tune, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:07
- Now multiply that times a thirty-two bar tune,
Some of 'em aren't always great, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:07
Some of 'em aren't always great,
- Russ Davis here at the Detroit Jazz Festival, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:07
- Russ Davis here at the Detroit Jazz Festival,
And who should I be sitting with, but Detroit's own, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:09
And who should I be sitting with, but Detroit's own,
- Four days of this festival playing with the nonet, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:09
- Four days of this festival playing with the nonet,
- We're on the 70th floor of a massive building - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:12
- We're on the 70th floor of a massive building
- For me, it's an important view - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:05
- For me, it's an important view
- [Speaker] To open a festival with the Ron Carter Nonet - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:11
- [Speaker] To open a festival with the Ron Carter Nonet
- [Speaker] And to that end, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:12
- [Speaker] And to that end,
In the 60s, the late 60s, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:11
In the 60s, the late 60s,
One thing I knew, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:05
One thing I knew,
Ron Carter, he put the tuxedo on all my recordings. - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:07
Ron Carter, he put the tuxedo on all my recordings.
He dressed me up, and I started hearing that from people. - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:05
He dressed me up, and I started hearing that from people.