Ron Carter Quartet September 26, 2008

Ron Carter
Two-time Grammy Award-winner Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music's greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the U.S. in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy and from 1963 to 1968, he was a member of the acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet. He was Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Studies while it was located in Boston and, after 18 years on the faculty of the Music Department of The City College of New York, he is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus although, as a performer, he remains as active as ever.
Lisa Sokolov
Lisa Sokolov is a frontline New York jazz vocalist, improviser, and composer. Her work embraces the best of new music, free and straight ahead jazz. Her recordings include angel Rodeo, Lazy Afternoon, and Presence.

Since arriving on the New York scene in 1977, Sokolov has worked with many new music and jazz notables including Cecil Taylor, Rashied Ali, Badal Roy, Andrew Cyrille, Mark Dresser, Jimmy Lyons, Irene Schweitzer, Steve McCall, Butch Morris, Gerry Hemingway, Didi Jackson, Blue "Gene" Tyranny, and Jim McNeely. She is the originator of the method of Embodied VoiceWork. As a teacher of this method, she has been an Associate Artist Professor and Head of the Voice Faculty of The Experimental Theater Wing at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts since 1985.

Cameron Brown
Accompanying Lisa Sokolov will be Jazz bassist Cameron Brown. Brown anchored some of the most important groups of the '70s, '80s and '90s. The Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet, featuring Dannie Richmond, developed into a rewarding partnership which lasted nearly 10 years. In addition to this quartet, Beaver Harris's 360 Degree Music Experience, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, the Sextet and Big Bands of George Russell, and various other groups, he has performed and/or recorded with Donald Byrd, Booker Ervin, Ted Curson, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, and the John Hicks Trio, Houston Person, and Etta Jones. Brown is on the faculty of the New School University and has appeared on more than 80 recordings.