Program for Sunday, July 21 at the Jazz Festival of San Javier

The history of jazz would be incomplete without Ron Carter, the best jazz double bass player of all times who at 82 years old walking through the stages the wisdom of a musician essential that has the world record of being the double bassist with more recordings in the history of jazz. The one who was a member of the historic Miles Davis quintet in the 60s with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Toni Williams, accumulates some 3000 recordings with music stars such as Billy Cobhan, McCoy Tyner, Stan Getz, West Montgomery, Don Ellis or Thelonious Monk, among others many, like the Brazilians Antonio Carlos Jobim and Rosa Passos with those who immersed themselves in the bossa nova sound to which they surrendered on his album "Jazz & Bossa".

With one of the most prolific careers in the world of jazz, Ron Carter, who is also an excellent cellist, came to jazz from classical music, which has never left acting and recording of Periodic way with symphony orchestras. As a composer, he won Grammy award for the song "Call Sheet Blues" for the movie Round Midnight, in 1998, although he had already won another one in 1993 to the best instrumental jazz group. Revered by the new generations of bassists, Ron Carter has five Doctorates Honoris Causa, the last by the prestigious Juilliard School, and defends the continuous training of the musician through masterclass and books with which he transmits his knowledge and experience with the double bass.