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===1990sβ2000s=== [[File:Ron Carter photo 1.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Carter performing at the European Jazz ExpΓ² 2007]] In 1994, he won his second [[Grammy Award]] for Best Jazz Instrumental Group for a tribute album to Miles Davis.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-11-28|title=37th Annual GRAMMY Awards|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/37th-annual-grammy-awards-1994|access-date=2020-07-13|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en}}</ref> He appeared on the [[alternative hip hop]] group [[A Tribe Called Quest]]'s influential album ''[[The Low End Theory]]'' on a track called "Verses from the Abstract".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Ron Carter and the Low End Theory|url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/10137113/ron-carter-and-the-low-end-theory|access-date=2020-07-13|website=KQED|date=June 4, 2014 |language=en-us}}</ref> Carter also recorded as a member of the jazz combo [[the Classical Jazz Quartet]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Classical Jazz Quartet Catalog|url=https://www.jazzdisco.org/the-classical-jazz-quartet/catalog/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=www.jazzdisco.org}}</ref> In 1994, Carter appeared on the [[Red Hot Organization]]'s compilation album, ''[[Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kohlhaase|first=Bill|date=1994-12-16|title=ALBUM REVIEW : VARIOUS ARTISTS, "Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool" ( GRP ) ***|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-16-ca-9815-story.html|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African-American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by ''[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=1994-12-26|title=The Best Music of 1994|language=en-US|magazine=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982060,00.html|access-date=2020-07-13|issn=0040-781X}}</ref> In 2001, Carter collaborated with [[Black Star (group)|Black Star]] and [[John Patton (musician)|John Patton]] to record "Money Jungle" for the [[Red Hot Organization]]'s compilation album, ''[[Red Hot + Indigo]]'', a tribute to [[Duke Ellington]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Red Hot {{!}} Red Hot + Indigo|url=https://redhot.org/project/red-hot-indigo/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=redhot.org|language=en}}</ref> Beginning in the 1990s, Carter became a Distinguished [[Professor Emeritus]] of the music department of [[City College of New York]], having taught there for 20 years,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jazz Studies at City College|url=https://jazz.ccnysites.cuny.edu/history/|website=Jazz at City History|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> and received an honorary doctorate from the [[Berklee College of Music]] in spring 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berklee.edu/about/honorary.html|title=Honorary Degree Recipients | Berklee College of Music|website=Berklee.edu|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref> He joined the faculty of the [[Juilliard School]] in New York City in 2008, teaching bass in the school's Jazz Studies program.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-12-24|title=Ron Carter|url=http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/ron-carter|access-date=2020-07-13|website=The Juilliard School|language=en}}</ref> Carter made an appearance in [[Robert Altman]]'s 1996 film, ''[[Kansas City (film)|Kansas City]]'', at the center of which is a jazz club called the Hey Hey Club.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/kansas-city-124362/|title=Kansas City|first=Peter|last=Travers|website=[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]|date=August 16, 1996|access-date=January 21, 2024}}</ref> The film's end credits feature Carter and fellow bassist [[Christian McBride]] duetting on "[[(In My) Solitude|Solitude]]"<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rosenbaum|first=Jonathan|title=Let the Music Do the Talking|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/let-the-music-do-the-talking/Content?oid=896246|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Chicago Reader|date=May 7, 1998|language=en}}</ref> at the club, owned by a black gangster called Seldom Seen, who was played by a "show-stealing" [[Harry Belafonte]].<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/kansascitykemp.htm|title= 'Kansas City': All Over the Map|first=Rita|last=Kempley|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|date=August 16, 1996}}</ref> (In a 2023 tribute, Carter would reveal how it came about that Belafonte had been his landlord.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FYORekrBLo|title=Ron Carter - Tribute to Harry Belafonte|date=July 28, 2023|via=YouTube}}</ref>) Carter sits on the advisory committee of the board of directors of The [[Jazz Foundation of America]] and on the Honorary Founder's Committee.<ref name="Ron Carter and the JFA">{{cite web|url=http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page%3Dstorfer.html|title=Archived copy|access-date=October 13, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713104437/http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=storfer.html|archive-date=July 13, 2011}}</ref> Carter has worked with the Jazz Foundation since its inception to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians including musicians that survived [[Hurricane Katrina]].<ref name="Ron Carter_ JFA Board">Pt. 2 Jazz Angels Jazz Foundation of America's Wendy Oxenhorn on HammondCast KYOURADIO.</ref> Carter appeared as himself in an episode of the HBO series ''[[Treme (TV series)|Treme]]'' entitled "What Is New Orleans".<ref name=":1" /> His authorized biography, ''Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes'' ({{ISBN|978-0989982511}}), by Dan Ouellette, was published by ArtistShare in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schu|first=John|title=Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes by Dan Ouellette|url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/ron-carter-finding-the-right-notes-by-dan-ouellette/|date=September 18, 2020|access-date=2020-07-13|website=JazzTimes|language=en-US}}</ref>
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