Relix Magazine
Ron Carter has played on more than 2,200 recording sessions– most famously with Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet-in every conceivable configuration. It’s second nature for him to find his place within the music while simultaneously influencing its direction. He is one of few acoustic jazz bassists who could step out onto a stage, as he does here, accompanied only by a spoken-word artist, and keep a listener spellbound. Plucking, bending and sliding, taking unexpected turns and providing close accompaniment, he’s still-in his 80s-a wonder to behold. Danny Simmons, the co-leader at this gig, is the co-founder of Def Poetry Jam as well as a painter.