Reflections on Monk & Bach, featuring ETHEL String Quartet & Ron Carter, double bass
$110-$160 (student/senior discounts available at the box office)
- Ron Carter, double bass
- Kip Jones, violin
- Corin Lee, violin
- Ralph Farris, viola
- Dorothy Lawson, cello
Thelonius Monk — 'Round Midnight (arr. Ron Carter)
Thelonius Monk — Misterioso (arr. Ron Carter)
Thelonius Monk — Selected works ("Monk Suite"; arr. Ron Carter)
Duke Ellington — Black and Tan Fantasy (as played by Thelonious Monk; arr. Ron Carter)
Duke Ellington — It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (as played by Thelonious Monk; arr. Ron Carter)
The "avatar of 'post-classical' music—the virtuosic string quartet ETHEL (The New Yorker)" and legendary bassist Ron Carter join forces for an unforgettable classical-jazz mashup performance at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 7:30pm. Centered on the music from Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk, an album celebrating the art of Thelonious Monk arranged originally for string quartet and bass, this remarkable concert unites two leaders of their respective musical fields for one unique genre-defying performance.
About ETHEL String Quartet
Established in New York City in 1998, the string quartet ETHEL sets the contemporary concert standard: "indefatigable and eclectic" (The New York Times), "vital and brilliant" (The New Yorker). Composer performers Ralph Farris (viola), Kip Jones (violin), Dorothy Lawson (cello), and Corin Lee (violin) fuse uptown panache with downtown genre mashup. ETHEL has performed across the United States and worldwide; released 10 feature albums; guested on 50+ recordings; won a Grammy with jazz legend Kurt Elling; and toured with Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson. ETHEL champions the art and music of today, forging human connections across sound and style.
https://ethelcentral.org/About Ron Carter, double bass
Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential double bassists in jazz. He has recorded over 2200 albums, and has a Guinness world record to prove it!
From 1963 to 1968, he was a member of the acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet. Over his 60 year career, he has recorded with so many of the jazz greats greats: Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, Bobby Timmons, Eric Dolphy, Cannonball Adderley and Jaki Byard to name a few. He can be heard on many iconic jazz records of the 60's and 70's such as Speak No Evil, Maiden Voyage, Red Clay, Speak Like a Child, Nefertiti and Miles Smiles, to name a few.
After leaving the quintet he embarked on a prolific 50-year free lance career that spanned vastly different music genres and continues to this day. He recorded with Roberta Flack, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Bette Midler and Aretha Franklin, appeared on the seminal hip-hop album Low End Theory with a Tribe Called Quest, wrote and recorded pieces for string quartets and Bach chorales for 2-8 basses and accompanied Danny Simmons on a spoken word album.
https://roncarterjazz.com/