Editing Ron Carter (section)

==Early life==
Carter was born in [[Ferndale, Michigan]].<ref name="feather" /> His father was a bus driver for the city of Detroit.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Ron Carter |url=https://www.maxraskin.com/interviews/ron-carter |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Interviews with Max Raskin |language=en-US}}</ref>

At the age of 10, he started playing the [[cello]], switching to bass while at [[Cass Technical High School]].<ref name="wynn" /> He earned a B.A. in music from the [[Eastman School of Music]] (1959) and a master's degree in music from the [[Manhattan School of Music]] (1961).<ref name="feather" /> While at [[Eastman School of Music|Eastman]], Carter began the shift from classical to jazz when he, [[Pee Wee Ellis]] and other friends put together a house band to play at the [[The Pythodd Room|Pythodd Room]], a club on Clarissa Street in segregated [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], where he met players on the [[Chitlin' Circuit|Chitlin Circuit]] who encouraged him to go to [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Partisan Pictures |title=Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes |url=https://www.pbs.org/show/ron-carter-finding-right-notes/ |website=PBS.org |publisher=PBS Documentaries |access-date=July 26, 2024 |pages=36:52–37:28 |format=Video |date=2022 |quote=“In my senior year, a couple of friends of mine put together a little band to play in the club in the Black part of Rochester. In playing in the house band opposite these groups–Dizzy’s band, Carmen McCrae’s band, J.J. Johnson’s band–they assured me that if I came to New York that New York’s always looking for a good bass player.”}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoeffler |first1=Paul |date=1958 |title=After Hours at the Pythodd |url=http://spiritofthepythodd.digitalscholar.rochester.edu/resources/after-hours-at-the-pythodd/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615012127/http://spiritofthepythodd.digitalscholar.rochester.edu/resources/after-hours-at-the-pythodd/ |archive-date=2021-06-15 |website=rochester.edu |publisher=University of Rochester, Rare Books & Special Collections |format=Photograph |quote=Ron Carter (bass), Pee Wee Ellis (saxophone), Richard (Dickie) Boddie |location=Pythodd Room, corner of Troup and Clarissa Street, Rochester, NY}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoeffler |first1=Paul |date=1958 |title=No Dancing at the Pythodd |url=https://archives.lib.rochester.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/164703 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726140738/https://archives.lib.rochester.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/164703 |archive-date=2024-07-26 |website=rochester.edu |publisher=University of Rochester, Rare Books & Special Collections |format=Photograph |quote=Ron Carter (bass), Pee Wee Ellis (saxophone) |location=Pythodd Room, corner of Troup and Clarissa Street, Rochester, NY}}</ref>

Carter's first jobs as a jazz musician were playing bass with [[Chico Hamilton]] in 1959, followed by freelance work with [[Jaki Byard]], [[Cannonball Adderley]], [[Randy Weston]], [[Bobby Timmons]], and [[Thelonious Monk]].<ref name="feather" />  One of his first recorded appearances was on Hamilton alumnus [[Eric Dolphy]]'s ''[[Out There (Eric Dolphy album)|Out There]]'', recorded on August 15, 1960, and featuring [[George Duvivier]] on bass, [[Roy Haynes]] on drums, and Carter on cello. The album's advanced harmonies and concepts were in step with the [[third stream]] movement.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/hdp2 |title=Eric Dolphy Out There Review |last=Marsh |first=Peter |date=2002 |website=BBC.co.uk|access-date=June 26, 2020}}</ref> In early October 1960, Carter recorded ''[[How Time Passes]]'' with [[Don Ellis]], and on June 20, 1961, he recorded ''[[Where? (album)|Where?]]'', his first album as a leader, featuring [[Eric Dolphy|Dolphy]] on alto sax, flute, and bass clarinet; [[Mal Waldron]] on piano; [[Charlie Persip]] on drums; and [[George Duvivier|Duvivier]] playing basslines on tracks where Carter played cello.