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| | | | | | |  | Thanks for Tuning In! | | Thank you for tuning in to the Ron Carter biography project that's unfolding online. This biography is the first of its kind: a traditional book-in-print (to be published in 2008) that’s enriched by this website that offers a host of online experiences. Here you will find a sampling of video footage, audio interviews, photo galleries, journal entries on the creative process in writing the biography and a radio station of selected interviews. By participating in the project, you’ll be kept up to date while receiving more exclusive insider looks into Ron's life--via photos, interviews, behind-the-scenes videos that will be available on a regular basis. Click on Participant Offers to see how you can become part of the project team. |  | |
|  | New Radio Podcast Interviews | Click on RADIO to hear some new podcast interviews, including Ron talking his days in Miles' band.
New radio:
• Ron on using pedal tones in Miles' quintet
• Ron saves Miles' life at 20 Grand in Detroit
• Ron talks about early days in Rochester with Chuck Mangione
• Kenny Barron talks about Ron | | |
|  | Join the blog stream of conversation about Ron | Curious about Ron? Intrigued about how a biography is born and how Dan is doing this in an unprecedented way via ArtistShare? Email him at danouell@aol.com, and let's get an interactive conversation rolling.
Click on the link to contact Dan. | | |
| |  | Journal 1: Project Initiation & Reflections, Part 1 | (photo: Ron Carter at Tribeca Performance Center; photo credit: Dan Ouellette)
In 2005 Ron Carter asked me if I'd be interested in writing his biography. Today (July 17, 2006) I break ground. I am finally committing to yellow-pad paper my first words in writing. I’m sitting in Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, near my gate for my return trip to JFK Airport in New York from the North Sea Jazz Festival where I did a live DownBeat Blindfold Test with trumpeter Chris Botti.
In the background is the repetitive rhythm of the female computerized voice, “Mind your step,” | | |
|  | Journal 2: Project initiation & Reflection, Part 2 | photo: Ron Carter at IAJE, 2007 (photo credit: Evantheia Schibsted)
continued from Journal 1
So I emailed David Dunton, the book agent who worked with a couple of friends, Ashley Kahn and Michelle Mercer, on their jazz-related books. I asked David to represent me. It took him nearly a week to respond. “Dan, this is a great idea,” he emailed me, “and I wish you the best, but the reality is that books on jazz sell about as many copies as jazz records.” Read: not a big enough volume to make a book agent’s day. | | |
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