{"id":3952,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/the-ron-carter-nonet-eight-plus\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"the-ron-carter-nonet-eight-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3952","title":{"rendered":"The Ron Carter Nonet &#8211; Eight Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/eightplus.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"The Ron Carter Nonet\" align=\"left\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>The Ron Carter Nonet<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Eight Plus<\/strong><\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\"><br \/>(Dreyfus &#8211; 2003)<br \/> by John Thompson<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Nine musicians, six stringed instruments, eight songs. That&#8217;s the lineup of legendary bassist Ron Carter&#8217;s &#8220;Eight Plus.&#8221;  Recorded in 1990, the music here is exceptional. It&#8217;s a great blend of jazz and classical music. Playing jazz since the 1950&#8217;s and a Miles Davis Quintet member from 1963-68, Carter has certainly paid his dues. Usually, in a band setting, the bass player gets the least amount of being out in front. This is the first cd that I&#8217;ve heard where a bassist is this far out in front, and Carter is the man for the job. The musicians include Lewis Nash (d) and Stephen Scott (p), four cellists, a percussionist, and Leon Maleson (b).  <\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;El Rompe Cabeza&#8221; varies time changes from 4\/4 to 5\/4.&#8221;A Closer Walk With Thee&#8221; is performed funky style (somewhere a church is having a fit), and Leon Russell&#8217;s &#8220;A Song For You&#8221; is covered. My favorite, &#8220;Eight,&#8221; makes reference to the jazz tune &#8220;Impressions.&#8221; All of Carter&#8217;s solos are fresh, as are the arrangements of the accompanying cellos, which add just the right mix for the classical sounds.  <\/p>\n<p>  Play the bass? Enjoy the clinic. Love strings? Buy the cd. 4 stars.  <\/font>              <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ron Carter Nonet Eight Plus(Dreyfus &#8211; 2003) by John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}